An Interview with Edward Snowden is Blacked Out in the US

            As I have regularly mentioned here on this blog, I no longer trust the mainstream US media to bring us factual and accurate world or domestic news.  For this reason, I listen to a trail of international newscasts each day.  Of course, all of them have their biases from time to time, but from the consistent reporting between them, one can usually get a fair picture of what is going on in the world, and also in the US.  I also do some research and read additional information when I don't quite understand one aspect or another of the news.

          This week,  I watched a lengthy interview on DW of another German networks  (ARD) really detailed interview of Edward Snowden.  I wanted to listen to him and think, "If you sign a contract as a contractor or employee of the United States then the secrets you learn about our internal functions are not to be disclosed". I was surprised at some of the things he said.  I was surprised as to a number of things, and it frightened me concerning various aspects of our (US) government even more than usual.

          I concluded that Mr. Snowden started as a CIA employee and then became a contractor working in cyber intelligence for Booz Allen Hamilton, which has a branch in the city nearest me. He actually loves America very much, and truly believes that he disclosed private information from the US government to the American people because our government is no longer following the Constitution, but is making it up as it goes along.  I found Mr. Snowden courageous and highly intelligent.   I was also deeply saddened as I heard that the US government discussed the assassination of Mr. Snowden in an attempt to prevent the disclosure of additional information.    This is an intelligent person who should be working for us.  He should be fortifying our government computer systems against foreign cyber attack.  Instead, he is sitting in Russia with little hope of ever seeing his America or his parents again.  He is also probably correct in that alphabet agencies in the US with the permission of our President probably are considering assassination as a means of protecting themselves.   Weren't these concerns we used to have with Soviet Russia ?    When did the US develop Nazi tactics ?

          This is part of that interview.   Although I watched the entire interview in English, on German television, I have not yet been able to locate the interview in its entirety for posting here.  I have included all of it that I could find.   Please tell me what you think.

           This interview has been completely ignored by US news outlets.    Why ?

http://ivn.us/2014/01/31/german-news-network-broadcasts-edward-snowden-interview/

More good information on this matter:

 http://thedailysmug.blogspot.com/2014/02/what-rest-of-world-heard-snowden-say.html#sthash.jrQrjp4f.dpbs

ARD the German network, cites that "due to legal reasons" the entire interview cannot be shown outside Germany.

       We are not the transparent nation that I was told we were while in college.   Perhaps with the Constitution being ignored and sidestepped daily, and Congress persons (Feinstein)   claiming that "those who serve in the military are crazy anyway" and should therefore no longer have access to weapons,  we are no longer "the land of the free and the home of the brave".

        It is said that people get the government they deserve.   I know a lot of people who deserve far better than this.