{"id":19882,"date":"2022-11-25T09:15:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T08:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=19882"},"modified":"2022-11-25T09:15:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T08:15:51","slug":"19882","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=19882","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It was with great bitterness that I watched as Snowden was completely forsaken by Europe and driven into the arms of Vladimir Putin. Was it not paradoxical that, after risking his life to reveal a monstrous threat to democracy like the NSA&#8217;s program of mass surveillance, he could escape Chelsea Manning&#8217;s fate only by going into exile in an authoritarian country? What Snowden had revealed was of exceptional public interest; indeed, his revelations continue to be a wake-up call for our democracies. As Daniel Ellsberg would later explain to me: &#8222;We could be <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">East Germany<\/span> from one day to the next, and have a police state that the <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">East Germans<\/span> couldn&#8217;t even dream of, because they didn&#8217;t have this kind of capability then. We don&#8217;t have that yet, because they [the NSA and the U.S. intelligence agencies] haven&#8217;t used the information they are collecting, but they have the private information [\u2026] and that means, as Snowden has put it, we&#8217;re a &#8218;turnkey tyranny&#8216;: in other words, turn a switch, and we could be a total police state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Stefania Maurizi, <em>Secret Power<\/em>, (London: <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Pluto Press<\/span>, <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">2022), 169-170<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was with great bitterness that I watched as Snowden was completely forsaken by Europe and driven into the arms of Vladimir Putin. Was it not paradoxical that, after risking his life to reveal a monstrous threat to democracy like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=19882\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}