Fox News claims that Ed Snowden "has the potential to do further damage to the country". Fox News of course intentionally and deceptively confusing "US Government" for "Country"

Brainwashing is an art, and Fox News is an artist.

Note to Fox News - bringing light to an American government who is exercising illegal and unconstitutional behavior in an attempt to stop said illegal and unconstitutional behavior may indeed be causing that current GOVERNMENT harm, but in no way, shape or form is it harming the American people, or America.

Please note the difference.  

But of course you won't be doing that. It doesn't fit your developing Snowden "narrative"

Here are the artists at Fox News painting their masterpiece:

"Glenn Greenwald, a columnist for The Guardian newspaper who first reported on the intelligence leaks, told Argentinian newspaper La Nacion that the U.S. government should exercise extreme care with Snowden because he has the potential to do further damage to the country."

Meanwhile, here's what Greenwald ACTUALLY said:

"I think it would be harmful to the U.S. government, as they perceive their own interests, if the details of those programs were revealed,

Ed Snowden - Dissident, Human Rights Activist, Patriot, Whistleblower, Refugee, Hero. Oh, wait, here's Obama's muppet Jay Carney: "Snowden is not a human rights activist or a dissident".

DISSIDENT
disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief

HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST
people who, individually or with others, act to promote or protect some variation of human rights, typically acting peacefully in the process

PATRIOT
one who loves his or her country and supports its authority and interests

WHISTLEBLOWER
one who reveals something covert or who informs against another

REFUGEE
one that flees; especially : a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution

HEROISM
heroic conduct especially as exhibited in fulfilling a high purpose or attaining a noble end

MUPPETS
a group of puppet characters known for an absurdist, burlesque and self-referential style of variety-sketch comedy.

FLASH: Statement and Video by Edward Snowden to human rights groups at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport

 Hello. My name is Ed Snowden.

A little over one month ago, I had family, a home in paradise, and I lived in great comfort. I also had the capability without any warrant to search for, seize, and read your communications. Anyone’s communications at any time. That is the power to change people’s fates.

It is also a serious violation of the law. The 4th and 5th Amendments to the Constitution of my country, Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and numerous statutes and treaties forbid such systems of massive, pervasive surveillance. While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted to see, somehow legitimize an illegal affair. These rulings simply corrupt the most basic notion of justice – that it must be seen to be done. The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.

I believe in the principle declared at Nuremberg in 1945: "Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring."

Accordingly, I did what I believed right and began a campaign to correct this wrongdoing. I did not seek to enrich myself. I did not seek to sell US secrets. I did not partner with any foreign government to guarantee my safety. Instead, I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.

That moral decision to tell the public about spying that affects all of us has been costly, but it was the right thing to do and I have no regrets.

Since that time, the government and intelligence services of the United States of America have attempted to make an example of me, a warning to all others who might speak out as I have. I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression. The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists. It demanded Hong Kong return me outside of the framework of its laws, in direct violation of the principle of non-refoulement – the Law of Nations. It has threatened with sanctions countries who would stand up for my human rights and the UN asylum system. It has even taken the unprecedented step of ordering military allies to ground a Latin American president’s plane in search for a political refugee. These dangerous escalations represent a threat not just to the dignity of Latin America, but to the basic rights shared by every person, every nation, to live free from persecution, and to seek and enjoy asylum.

Yet even in the face of this historically disproportionate aggression, countries around the world have offered support and asylum. These nations, including Russia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Ecuador have my gratitude and respect for being the first to stand against human rights violations carried out by the powerful rather than the powerless. By refusing to compromise their principles in the face of intimidation, they have earned the respect of the world. It is my intention to travel to each of these countries to extend my personal thanks to their people and leaders.

I announce today my formal acceptance of all offers of support or asylum I have been extended and all others that may be offered in the future. With, for example, the grant of asylum provided by Venezuela’s President Maduro, my asylee status is now formal, and no state has a basis by which to limit or interfere with my right to enjoy that asylum. As we have seen, however, some governments in Western European and North American states have demonstrated a willingness to act outside the law, and this behavior persists today. This unlawful threat makes it impossible for me to travel to Latin America and enjoy the asylum granted there in accordance with our shared rights.

This willingness by powerful states to act extra-legally represents a threat to all of us, and must not be allowed to succeed. Accordingly, I ask for your assistance in requesting guarantees of safe passage from the relevant nations in securing my travel to Latin America, as well as requesting asylum in Russia until such time as these states accede to law and my legal travel is permitted. I will be submitting my request to Russia today, and hope it will be accepted favorably.

If you have any questions, I will answer what I can.

Thank you.

Edward Snowden

FLASH - ED SNOWDEN RENEWING BID FOR ASYLUM IN RUSSIA BEFORE HEADING TO LATIN AMERICA

Ed Snowden asking Russia for asylum, will be on temporary basis until he can secure safe transit to a brave host nation

According to Tanya Lokshina, a Human Rights Watch representative who attended the meeting, Snowden "wants our assistance in getting guarantees of safe passage to Latin America and safety guarantees to stay in Russia until he can travel to Latin America.”

Memo to Ed- enjoy your time in Russia.  Beautiful country and people. Stay safe.

Full statement from Snowden coming soon...

US Government, acting against the wishes of the American public, continuing to pressure, extort and bribe nations in futile attempt to imprison the whistleblower Ed Snowden

Isn't this how the Mafia works?

Memo to Obama, Biden, et al - THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DO NOT SUPPORT YOU, AND YOUR ATTMPTS TO SILENCE AND IMPRISON A HEROIC AMERICAN WHISTLEBLOWER.

YOU HAVE LOST.

U.S. Is Pressing Latin Americans to Reject Snowden

CARACAS, Venezuela — The United States is conducting a diplomatic full-court press to try to block Edward J. Snowden, the fugitive American intelligence contractor, from finding refuge in Latin America, where three left-leaning governments that make defying Washington a hallmark of their foreign policies have publicly vowed to take him in.

FLASH: Ed Snowden to meet with human rights groups in Moscow today at 16:30 Moscow Time - invite letter here, statement expected after meeting

I have been extremely fortunate to enjoy and accept many offers of support
and asylum from brave countries around the world. These nations have my
gratitude, and I hope to travel to each of them to extend my personal
thanks to their people and leaders. By refusing to compromise their
principles in the face of intimidation, they have earned the respect of
the world.

Unfortunately, in recent weeks we have witnessed an unlawful campaign by
officials in the U.S. Government to deny my right to seek and enjoy this
asylum under Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The
scale of threatening behavior is without precedent: never before in
history have states conspired to force to the ground a sovereign
President's plane to effect a search for a political refugee. This
dangerous escalation represents a threat not just to the dignity of Latin
America or my own personal security, but to the basic right shared by
every living person to live free from persecution.

I invite the Human Rights organizations and other respected individuals
addressed to join me on 12 July at 5:00PM at Sheremetyevo Airport in
Moscow for a brief statement and discussion regarding the next steps
forward in my situation. Your cooperation and support will be greatly
appreciated in this matter.

Sincerely,
Edward Joseph Snowden

MEETING DETAILS:
Please meet at 4.30pm at Sheremetyevo airport in Terminal F, in the centre
of the arrival hall. Someone from airport staff will be waiting there to
receive you with a sign labelled "G9". Please bring a copy of this invite
and ID to show that you work for your organization as security will likely
be tight at this meeting. A maximum of three people are able to attend
from each organization. For any questions please contact the airport
administration on +8 916-816-4335


UPDATE - SCENE FROM AIRPORT:

UPDATE - SCENE FROM MEETING

FLASH: 54% OF AMERICANS CONSIDER ED SNOWDEN A WHISTLEBLOWER, 34% SAY TRAITOR. AND IN RELATED NEWS, 34% OF AMERICANS ARE SHOWN TO BE UNTHINKING BRAINWASHED STOOGES.

Snowden Seen as Whistle-Blower by Majority in New Poll

A majority of U.S. registered voters consider Edward Snowden a whistle-blower, not a traitor, and a plurality says government anti-terrorism efforts have gone too far in restricting civil liberties, a poll released today shows.

Fifty-five percent said Snowden was a whistle-blower in leaking details about top-secret U.S. programs that collect telephone and Internet data, in the survey from Hamden, Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University. Thirty-four percent said he’s a traitor.

Ed Snowden Interview Part 2: "I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded. And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under"

"I think they are going to say I have committed grave crimes, I have violated the Espionage Act. They are going to say I have aided our enemies in making them aware of these systems. But this argument can be made against anyone who reveals information that points out mass survellience systems,"

Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow

One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably never will. I trusted them with my life and they returned that trust with a faith in me for which I will always be thankful.

On Thursday, President Obama declared before the world that he would not permit any diplomatic "wheeling and dealing" over my case. Yet now it is being reported that after promising not to do so, the President ordered his Vice President to pressure the leaders of nations from which I have requested protection to deny my asylum petitions.

This kind of deception from a world leader is not justice, and neither is the extralegal penalty of exile. These are the old, bad tools of political aggression. Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those who would come after me.

For decades the United States of America have been one of the strongest defenders of the human right to seek asylum. Sadly, this right, laid out and voted for by the U.S. in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is now being rejected by the current government of my country. The Obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon. Although I am convicted of nothing, it has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person. Without any judicial order, the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right. A right that belongs to everybody. The right to seek asylum.
"In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised — and it should be.

I am unbowed in my convictions and impressed at the efforts taken by so many.

Edward Joseph Snowden