{"id":9370,"date":"2013-06-25T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=9370"},"modified":"2013-06-25T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T02:19:00","slug":"snowden-passport-cancellation-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2013\/06\/snowden-passport-cancellation-irony\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowden Passport Cancellation Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read with a chuckle last night, a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-06-23\/snowden-s-u-s-passport-revoked-according-to-u-s-official.html\">Bloomberg article<\/a> reporting on the apparent cancellation of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Security_Agency\">NSA<\/a> whistleblower Edward Snowden&#8217;s US passport.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden&#8217;s U.S. passport has been revoked, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On &#8220;condition of anonymity&#8221; hey?  So presumably shouldn&#8217;t have been leaking such information?<\/p>\n<p>Given Snowden has been accused of and charged with the leaking information regarding the NSA&#8217;s secret and warrantless program of internet and telephone surveillance, will they hunt down the person responsible for the leak of this information about the status of his passport?<\/p>\n<p>I bet they don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read with a chuckle last night, a Bloomberg article reporting on the apparent cancellation of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden&#8217;s US passport. &#8220;Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden&#8217;s U.S. passport has been revoked, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity.&#8221; On &#8220;condition of anonymity&#8221; hey? So presumably shouldn&#8217;t have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[437,486,518],"class_list":["post-9370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-privacy","tag-snowden","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}