News Updates from Citizens For Legitimate Government

News Updates from Citizens For Legitimate Government

12 Jun 2013
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Breaking: Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell Resigns 12 Jun 2013 The deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency is stepping down to join President Barack Obama's intelligence advisory board. Michael Morell announced his resignation from the CIA on Wednesday, and the White House said President Obama would appoint Avril Haines to take his place. Mr Morell, who has spent 33 years at the CIA, was named acting head of the agency in November after then-director General David Petraeus resigned amidst a cheating scandal.

Ron Paul fears NSA leaker assassination 12 Jun 2013 As the hunt continues for Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who outed himself last weekend as the source of top-secret leaks about U.S. surveillance program, some people have concerns about his fate. "I'm worried about, somebody in our government might kill him with a cruise missile or a drone missile," said Ron Paul a former Texas congressman who twice ran for the Republican presidential nomination, in an interview Tuesday with Fox Business Network. "I mean, we live in a bad time where American citizens don't even have rights and that they can be killed, but the gentlemen is trying to tell the truth about what's going on."

European Commission demands answers about Prism data requests 12 Jun 2013 The EU's Justice Commissioner has written to the US attorney general, questioning him about America's data surveillance programme, Prism. Viviane Reding wrote that she was concerned America's efforts "could have grave adverse consequences for the fundamental rights of EU citizens". A series of leaks suggest major tech firms have passed information to the National Security Agency, the US government's snooping organisation. Experts say they could now be sued.

Edward Snowden vows not to 'hide from justice' amid new hacking claims 12 Jun 2013 The NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden vowed to fight an expected move by the US to have him extradited from Hong Kong in a new interview published on Wednesday. In his first comments since revealing his identify in the Guardian at the weekend, Snowden told the South China Morning Post that he was not in Hong Kong to "hide from justice" and would put his trust in its legal system. He also claimed that the US had been hacking Hong Kong and China since 2009, and accused the US of "bullying" the territory to return him because it did not want local authorities to learn of its cyber activities. Snowden claimed that the US had hacked hundreds of targets in Hong Kong -- including public officials, a university, businesses and students in the city -- and on the mainland. These were part of more than 61,000 NSA hacking operations globally, he alleged.

Whistle-blower Edward Snowden tells SCMP: 'Let Hong Kong people decide my fate' --Ex-CIA operative wants to remain in Hong Kong 12 Jun 2013 Edward Snowden says he wants to ask the people of Hong Kong to decide his fate after choosing the city because of his faith in its rule of law. The 29-year-old former CIA employee behind what might be the biggest intelligence leak in US history revealed his identity to the world in Hong Kong on Sunday. Snowden said last night that he had no doubts about his choice of Hong Kong... Local activists plan to take to the streets on Saturday in support of Snowden. Groups including the Civil Human Rights Front and international human rights groups will march from Chater Gardens in Central to the US consulate on Garden Road, starting at 3pm.

Whistleblower Edward Snowden talks to South China Morning Post 12 Jun 2013 Surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden has spoken for the first time since blowing his own cover in an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post. The ex-CIA analyst has been holed up in secret locations in Hong Kong since fleeing Hawaii ahead of highly sensitive leaks revealing details of US top-secret phone and internet surveillance of its citizens. "People who think I made a mistake in picking HK as a location misunderstand my intentions. I am not here to hide from justice; I am here to reveal criminality," Snowden told the Post earlier today.

Bradley Manning's laptop scrutinized in WikiLeaks trial 12 Jun 2013 Pfc. Bradley Manning's court-martial over sending sensitive material to WikiLeaks has resumed with a U.S. Army investigator testifying about what he found on the soldier's personal laptop. Army computer crimes investigator Mark Johnson testified Wednesday that he found evidence of chats between Manning and Julian Assange, who founded the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. Manning faces numerous charges, including aiding the enemy, which carries a potential life sentence.

'I watch him bleed out:' Drone operator who helped kill 1,626 targets reveals trauma of watching them die on a computer screen --When he was recruited to the job, he was told he would be like the smart guys in the control room in a James Bond movie 06 Jun 2013 A former drone operator who helped kill 1,626 targets says he's haunted by the carnage he witnessed from behind his computer screen. Brandon Bryant, 27, served as a drone operator from 2006 to 2011 at bases in Nevada, New Mexico and Iraq. It was a desk job of sorts, but unlike any other, it involved ordering unmanned aircraft to kill faraway targets while he watched. In an interview with NBC News, Bryant recalled one operation where his team fired two missiles from a drone at three men in Afghanistan.

Syrian army makes fresh advances in strategic city of Aleppo 12 Jun 2013 The Syrian government forces have made fresh advances in fighting with foreign-backed Takfiri insurgents in the flash point city of Aleppo, Press TV reports. The Army campaign against foreign backed militants in the strategic city of Aleppo is considered one of the largest operations carried out by the Syrian government. The Army regained full control of Kafar Hamra, a suburb of Aleppo.

North Ridgeville, OH police officer shoots five kittens outside house with children watching 11 Jun 2013 A humane officer shot a family of five kittens outside a North Ridgeville house on Monday and the homeowner says her young children saw the whole thing happen. North Ridgeville humane officer [sociopath] Barry Accorti was dispatched to a house on Vista Lake Way after a resident complained about a family of cats living in her wood pile, police said. The homeowner said the feral cats were causing a flea problem in her house and that she wanted them removed for the health of her family. The homeowner and mother of four said Accorti told her the shelters were full and the cats would go to "kitty heaven." That's when he shot the five, 8 to 10-week-old kittens, with the woman standing nearby and her children watching from inside the house. She said her children, ages 5 months to 7 years, were screaming and crying at the sound of the gunshots.

Storm system threatening millions in Midwest could spawn feared derecho 12 Jun 2013 A storm system brewing over the Midwest threatened tens of millions of people Wednesday with heavy rain, hail and perhaps even a derecho -- a rare, explosive wind pattern that forecasters compare to the landfall of a hurricane. Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland were all in the threat zone, with Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Washington at risk of severe storms on Thursday. The weather service issued a tornado watch for parts of Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Besides tornadoes, it warned of 80-mph wind and 3-inch hail.

Colorado wildfire destroys between 80 and 100 homes 12 Jun 2013 A wind-whipped Colorado wildfire burned between 80 and 100 homes in a wooded subdivision just outside of the state's second largest city on Wednesday, as another blaze shut a top tourist attraction and forced the evacuation of more than 900 inmates from a prison in a neighboring county. A fast-moving blaze was raging uncontrolled about 15 miles northeast of Colorado Springs, and could soon threaten even more homes if winds increase as expected on Wednesday afternoon, El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa told reporters. The blaze, which ignited on Tuesday and quickly ripped through Colorado's Black Forest, comes as firefighters in other parts of the U.S. West have grappled with an early and intense start to the wildfire season, particularly in California.

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