Quote of the day:
OBAMA ON SNOWDEN: "I'm Not Going To Be Scrambling Jets To Get A 29-Year-Old [narcissistic treacherous punk - Mike Nova] Hacker".
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-edward-snowden-scrambling-jets-hacker-2013-6#ixzz2XX2BY371
Mike Nova comments: I think that Snowden was motivated more by his need for personal "glory" than by his sense of social responsibility (possibly not unlike Assange). It is a subtype of a Herostratus crime. One of the differences from the classic version is that modern day herostrati prefer to live in diplomatic comfort rather than to face the music.
Links:
herostratus - GS
herostratus syndrome - GS
herostratus complex - GS
herostratus short story - GS
herostratus film - GS
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REUTERS/Gary Cameron
President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he wouldn't be scrambling military jets to secure the capture of National Security Agency leak source Edward Snowden, saying he wouldn't participate in "wheeling and dealing" to get Snowden extradited back to the United States.
"I'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker," Obama said of Snowden at a press conference Thursday in Senegal, Africa. Snowden actually turned 30 years old last week.
Obama also said that he has not spoken to China President Xi Jinping or Russian President Vladimir Putin about Snowden's extradition.
"I have not called President Xi personally or President Putin personally," Obama said. "And the reason is because, No. 1: I shouldn’t have to."
Snowden, a former NSA contractor at Booz Allen Hamilton,
was charged on June 14 with three felonies after leaking a trove of secrets about the NSA's surveillance programs. Each of the felonies carries a possible 10-year prison sentence.
Russia's parliament has extended an
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