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Edward Snowden And The Right To Travel

Supporters are pushing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to revalidate Snowden’s right to travel, but the NSA whistleblower is probably going to stay stuck in Russia for some time. (By Carmen Russell-Sluchansky, MintPress News | March 29, 2014 Read more here.)

Activists wearing masks of former NSA analyst Edward Snowden, right, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, center, and President Barack Obama perform with an oversized passport outside the foreign ministry to demand Snowden be granted asylum in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. (AP/Eraldo Peres)

Whistleblowers: Snowden’s A Hero; Intelligence Community’s Out Of Line

Bold statements go a long way for whistleblowers calling Edward Snowden a hero and bringing attention to the fact that the U.S. intelligence community has simply gone too far. (By Katie Rucke, March 27, 2014 Read more here.)

Petitions with 100,000+ Signatures Call for Snowden’s Passport to be Reinstated

This Real News.com segment highlights Establishment Washington and Mainstream Media hypocrisy in their continued effort to “kill the messenger,” while at the same time measures are being taken to end the abuses made known only through the patriotic whistleblowing of that same messenger, Edward Snowden. The scene was the National Press Club on March 25; The Real News Network put together this excellent summary based primarily on the reporting of a TRNN correspondent on the scene.

About the Sam Adams Associates

Sam Adams AssociatesSam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence is a movement of former CIA colleagues of former intelligence analyst Sam Adams, together with others who hold up his example as a model for those in intelligence who would aspire to the courage to speak truth to power. SAAII confers an award each year to a member of the intelligence community or related professions who exemplifies Sam Adam’s courage, persistence, and devotion to truth – no matter the consequences. Read more about the history here.

The annual Sam Adams Award has been given in previous years to truth tellers Coleen Rowley of the FBI; Katharine Gun of British Intelligence; Sibel Edmonds of the FBI; Craig Murray, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan; Sam Provance, former US Army Sgt; Maj. Frank Grevil of Danish Army Intelligence; Larry Wilkerson, Col., US Army (ret.), former chief of staff to Colin Powell at State; Julian Assange, of WikiLeaks: Thomas Drake, of NSA; Jesselyn Radack, formerly of Dept. of Justice and now National Security Director of Government Accountability Project; Thomas Fingar, former Deputy Director of National Intelligence and Director, National Intelligence Council, and Edward Snowden, former contractor for the National Security Agency; Chelsea Manning, US Army Private who exposed (via WikiLeaks) key information on Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as State Department activities; and to retired National Security Agency official William Binney, who challenged decisions to ignore the Fourth Amendment in the government’s massive — and wasteful — collection of electronic data.