Friday 28 June 2013
Tuesday 25 June 2013
Where is Mr. Edward Snowden ?
The competition of Snowden and Obama for Hide and Seek game start from Russia with love . It is a serious event .
Who is the responsible person for leaking documents showing that U.S. INTELLIGENCE services have gathered data for years about patterns of telephone and internet use ,
As I think , more than one authorized persons should be responsible that leaking , Would not make a finger point to the country where Snowden visit for transit to end up his journey .
According to the U.S. constitution , the domestic responsibilities of the President of the U.S. falls under two categories , Law and Economy .
He is also the head of the Federal Government and is the Supreme Commander of Armed Force of the U.S.
Be patient to resolve the Issue ! God bless with you !
"He chose his route on his own, and we found out about it, as most here did, from mass media," he said during a joint press conference with Algeria's foreign minister. "He did not cross the Russian border."
Passengers arriving on the Hong Kong to Moscow flight that was suspected to be carrying Snowden said they saw police activity and at least one black car drive up to the plane before they were allowed to disembark.
That fuelled speculation that Snowden may have been whisked from the plane before going through passport control. Olafur Vignir Sigurvinsson, an Icelandic businessman with links to WikiLeaks, told Reuters last week that he had readied a private jet to aid Snowden's flight from Hong Kong should the Icelandic government grant him asylum.
Lavrov lashed out angrily at suggestions that Russia was involved. "We consider the attempts we are now seeing to blame the Russian side for breaking US laws and being almost in on the plot totally baseless and unacceptable, and even an attempt to threaten us," he said .
Who is the responsible person for leaking documents showing that U.S. INTELLIGENCE services have gathered data for years about patterns of telephone and internet use ,
As I think , more than one authorized persons should be responsible that leaking , Would not make a finger point to the country where Snowden visit for transit to end up his journey .
According to the U.S. constitution , the domestic responsibilities of the President of the U.S. falls under two categories , Law and Economy .
He is also the head of the Federal Government and is the Supreme Commander of Armed Force of the U.S.
Be patient to resolve the Issue ! God bless with you !
Russia's foreign minister has said the surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden never crossed the border into Russia, deepening the mystery over his suspected flight from Hong Kong.
"I would like to say right away that we have no relation to either Mr Snowden or to his relationship with American justice or to his movements around the world," Sergei Lavrov said."He chose his route on his own, and we found out about it, as most here did, from mass media," he said during a joint press conference with Algeria's foreign minister. "He did not cross the Russian border."
According to WikiLeaks, which said it facilitated his travel, Snowden fled Hong Kong on Sunday morning to transit via Moscow to an undisclosed third country. He has applied to be granted political asylum by Ecuador, whose London embassy is currently sheltering the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Russian news agencies, citing anonymous sources, reported that Snowden had arrived in Moscow on Sunday evening and met Ecuadorean diplomats at Sheremetyevo airport while awaiting a Monday afternoon flight to Havana, from where he would travel to Venezuela. Snowden did not show up for the flight.Passengers arriving on the Hong Kong to Moscow flight that was suspected to be carrying Snowden said they saw police activity and at least one black car drive up to the plane before they were allowed to disembark.
That fuelled speculation that Snowden may have been whisked from the plane before going through passport control. Olafur Vignir Sigurvinsson, an Icelandic businessman with links to WikiLeaks, told Reuters last week that he had readied a private jet to aid Snowden's flight from Hong Kong should the Icelandic government grant him asylum.
The US has warned Russia and China against helping Snowden as it seeks his extradition to face charges of espionage for gathering and disclosing documents outlining US surveillance programmes.
The White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Monday that the US was working under the assumption that Snowden was in Russia.Lavrov lashed out angrily at suggestions that Russia was involved. "We consider the attempts we are now seeing to blame the Russian side for breaking US laws and being almost in on the plot totally baseless and unacceptable, and even an attempt to threaten us," he said .
Sunday 23 June 2013
NSA Leaker in Moscow , What will be continued ? .......
To do what others cannot do is Talent . To do what Talent cannot do is Genius ! ......
Who will tame to whom ? or Who will be tamed by whom ?
The Charge : The U.S. has filed Espionage charge against Edward Snowden who admitted revealing secret surveillance programs to media outlets .
The Plaintiff : The Government of the U.S. ,
The Defendent : Not Appear , ( Travelling Around the world ) .
The Issue : Who is abused by Whom ?
Who will tame to whom ? or Who will be tamed by whom ?
The Charge : The U.S. has filed Espionage charge against Edward Snowden who admitted revealing secret surveillance programs to media outlets .
The Plaintiff : The Government of the U.S. ,
The Defendent : Not Appear , ( Travelling Around the world ) .
The Issue : Who is abused by Whom ?
June 23, 2013
The former U.S. intelligence contractor wanted by the United States for leaking information on government surveillance programs has asked for political asylum in Ecuador after flying from Hong Kong to Moscow.
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino posted a message on Twitter Sunday, saying his government has received an asylum request from Edward Snowden, the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor. Patino did not provide further details.
Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said its legal advisors and unidentified diplomats accompanied Snowden as he flew to Moscow Sunday from Hong Kong, where he had been in hiding since last month. It said the escorts will remain with Snowden as he travels to Ecuador, one of Latin America's strongest critics of U.S. foreign policy.
Ecuador has sheltered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at its London embassy for the past year. Assange took refuge in the embassy to avoid being deported from Britain to Sweden to face sexual assault charges. He has claimed that Sweden could extradite him to the United States to face charges related to WikiLeaks' publication of secret U.S. diplomatic cables in 2010.
A U.S. official in Washington told Western news agencies that Snowden's U.S. passport has been revoked.
The State Department later said U.S. citizens wanted on felony charges such as Snowden "should not be allowed to proceed in any further international travel, other than is necessary to return him to the United States." It declined to comment specifically on Snowden's passport status, but said citizens with felony arrest warrants are "subject to having their passport revoked."
Snowden remained inside Moscow's airport after arriving Sunday. Russian news agencies said he is expected to depart the airport Monday, on a flight to the Cuban capital, Havana, before continuing to his final destination.
VOA's Moscow correspondent James Brooke says the Russian government is happy to play a role in facilitating Snowden's flight from the U.S. justice system.
"They are very much enjoying this negative publicity for the U.S. - that the all-powerful U.S. tried to have the man arrested and he got out of Hong Kong in the nick of time and is playing this around-the-globe cat-and-mouse game with the U.S. They love that. And they're a player once again. They love being back in the superpower game," he said.
Snowden traveled to Hong Kong after leaving the United States last month and releasing documents that indicated the extent of U.S. monitoring of telephone and Internet communications.
He initially expressed a desire to stay in Hong Kong and fight extradition to the United States. But he left the autonomous Chinese territory after the U.S. Justice Department unsealed criminal charges against him.
The United States asked Hong Kong to extradite Snowden last week, after charging him with espionage and theft of U.S. government property for providing newspapers with classified documents about U.S. surveillance programs. But Hong Kong said the 30-year-old was free to leave on Sunday, because the U.S. extradition request did not fully comply with its legal requirements.
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino posted a message on Twitter Sunday, saying his government has received an asylum request from Edward Snowden, the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor. Patino did not provide further details.
Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said its legal advisors and unidentified diplomats accompanied Snowden as he flew to Moscow Sunday from Hong Kong, where he had been in hiding since last month. It said the escorts will remain with Snowden as he travels to Ecuador, one of Latin America's strongest critics of U.S. foreign policy.
Ecuador has sheltered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at its London embassy for the past year. Assange took refuge in the embassy to avoid being deported from Britain to Sweden to face sexual assault charges. He has claimed that Sweden could extradite him to the United States to face charges related to WikiLeaks' publication of secret U.S. diplomatic cables in 2010.
A U.S. official in Washington told Western news agencies that Snowden's U.S. passport has been revoked.
The State Department later said U.S. citizens wanted on felony charges such as Snowden "should not be allowed to proceed in any further international travel, other than is necessary to return him to the United States." It declined to comment specifically on Snowden's passport status, but said citizens with felony arrest warrants are "subject to having their passport revoked."
Snowden remained inside Moscow's airport after arriving Sunday. Russian news agencies said he is expected to depart the airport Monday, on a flight to the Cuban capital, Havana, before continuing to his final destination.
VOA's Moscow correspondent James Brooke says the Russian government is happy to play a role in facilitating Snowden's flight from the U.S. justice system.
"They are very much enjoying this negative publicity for the U.S. - that the all-powerful U.S. tried to have the man arrested and he got out of Hong Kong in the nick of time and is playing this around-the-globe cat-and-mouse game with the U.S. They love that. And they're a player once again. They love being back in the superpower game," he said.
Snowden traveled to Hong Kong after leaving the United States last month and releasing documents that indicated the extent of U.S. monitoring of telephone and Internet communications.
He initially expressed a desire to stay in Hong Kong and fight extradition to the United States. But he left the autonomous Chinese territory after the U.S. Justice Department unsealed criminal charges against him.
The United States asked Hong Kong to extradite Snowden last week, after charging him with espionage and theft of U.S. government property for providing newspapers with classified documents about U.S. surveillance programs. But Hong Kong said the 30-year-old was free to leave on Sunday, because the U.S. extradition request did not fully comply with its legal requirements.
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Monday 17 June 2013
International Watergate Scandal or GCHQ INTERCEPTED Foreign Politicians'' Communications .
Up to date on 22.6.2013.
It was happened in London in 2009 .
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• Setting up internet cafes where they used an email interception programme and key-logging software to spy on delegates' use of computers;
• Penetrating the security on delegates' BlackBerrys to monitor their email messages and phone calls;
• Supplying 45 analysts with a live round-the-clock summary of who was phoning who at the summit;
• Targeting the Turkish finance minister and possibly 15 others in his party;
• Receiving reports from an NSA attempt to eavesdrop on the Russian leader, Dmitry Medvedev, as his phone calls passed through satellite links to Moscow.
Watergate Scandal was happened in the US History ....
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The Watergate scandal was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. The scandal eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974 — the only resignation of a U.S. President to date. The scandal also resulted in the indictment, trial, conviction, and incarceration of forty-three persons, dozens of whom were Nixon's top administration officials.
The affair began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) connected cash found on the burglars to a slush fund used by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, the official organization of Nixon's campaign.[1][2] In July 1973, as evidence mounted against the president's staff, including testimony provided by former staff members in an investigation conducted by the Senate Watergate Committee, it was revealed that President Nixon had a tape-recording system in his offices and he had recorded many conversations.[3][4] Recordings from these tapes implicated the president, revealing he had attempted to cover up the questionable (and illegal) goings-on that had taken place after the break-in.[2][5] After a protracted series of bitter court battles, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the president had to hand over the tapes to government investigators; he ultimately complied.
Facing near-certain impeachment in the House of Representatives and a strong possibility of a conviction in the Senate, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974.[6][7] His successor, Gerald Ford, then issued a pardon to him
Up to date on ( 18.6.2013 ) Tuesday :
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June 20, 2013
PARIS/MADRID — France and Spain led a Europe-wide push on Thursday to get U.S. Internet giant Google to change its policies on collecting user data.
News that the U.S. National Security Agency under the PRISM surveillance program secretly gathered user data from nine U.S. companies, including Google, to track people's movements and contacts makes the timing especially sensitive for Google.
France's data protection watchdog (CNIL) said Google had broken French law and gave it three months to change its privacy policies or risk a fine of up to 150,000 euros ($200,000).
Spain's Data Protection Agency (AEPD) told Google it would be fined between 40,000 euros and 300,000 euros for each of the five violations of the law, that it had failed to be clear about what it did with data, may be processing a “disproportionate” amount and holding onto it for an “undetermined or unjustified” period of time.
The CNIL, which has been leading Europe's inquiry since Google launched its consolidated privacy policy in March 2012, said Britain, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands would be taking similar action against the world's No. 1 search engine.
Google could face fines totalling several million euros
News that the U.S. National Security Agency under the PRISM surveillance program secretly gathered user data from nine U.S. companies, including Google, to track people's movements and contacts makes the timing especially sensitive for Google.
France's data protection watchdog (CNIL) said Google had broken French law and gave it three months to change its privacy policies or risk a fine of up to 150,000 euros ($200,000).
Spain's Data Protection Agency (AEPD) told Google it would be fined between 40,000 euros and 300,000 euros for each of the five violations of the law, that it had failed to be clear about what it did with data, may be processing a “disproportionate” amount and holding onto it for an “undetermined or unjustified” period of time.
The CNIL, which has been leading Europe's inquiry since Google launched its consolidated privacy policy in March 2012, said Britain, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands would be taking similar action against the world's No. 1 search engine.
Google could face fines totalling several million euros
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GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits
Exclusive: phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009
Documents uncovered by the NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, reveal surveillance of G20 delegates' emails and BlackBerrys. Photograph: Guardian
Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted on the instructions of their British government hosts, according to documents seen by the Guardian. Some delegates were tricked into using internet cafes which had been set up by British intelligence agencies to read their email traffic.
The revelation comes as Britain prepares to host another summit on Monday – for the G8 nations, all of whom attended the 2009 meetings which were the object of the systematic spying. It is likely to lead to some tension among visiting delegates who will want the prime minister to explain whether they were targets in 2009 and whether the exercise is to be repeated this week.
The disclosure raises new questions about the boundaries of surveillance by GCHQ and its American sister organisation, the National Security Agency, whose access to phone records and internet data has been defended as necessary in the fight against terrorism and serious crime. The G20 spying appears to have been organised for the more mundane purpose of securing an advantage in meetings. Named targets include long-standing allies such as South Africa and Turkey.
There have often been rumours of this kind of espionage at international conferences, but it is highly unusual for hard evidence to confirm it and spell out the detail. The evidence is contained in documents – classified as top secret – which were uncovered by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and seen by the Guardian. They reveal that during G20 meetings in April and September 2009 GCHQ used what one document calls "ground-breaking intelligence capabilities" to intercept the communications of visiting delegations.
This included:• Setting up internet cafes where they used an email interception programme and key-logging software to spy on delegates' use of computers;
• Penetrating the security on delegates' BlackBerrys to monitor their email messages and phone calls;
• Supplying 45 analysts with a live round-the-clock summary of who was phoning who at the summit;
• Targeting the Turkish finance minister and possibly 15 others in his party;
• Receiving reports from an NSA attempt to eavesdrop on the Russian leader, Dmitry Medvedev, as his phone calls passed through satellite links to Moscow.
The documents suggest that the operation was sanctioned in principle at a senior level in the government of the then prime minister, Gordon Brown, and that intelligence, including briefings for visiting delegates, was passed to British ministers.
The responsibility to whom will be upon , then !
It would be continued , how long !
Watergate Scandal was happened in the US History ....
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The Watergate scandal was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. The scandal eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974 — the only resignation of a U.S. President to date. The scandal also resulted in the indictment, trial, conviction, and incarceration of forty-three persons, dozens of whom were Nixon's top administration officials.
The affair began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) connected cash found on the burglars to a slush fund used by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, the official organization of Nixon's campaign.[1][2] In July 1973, as evidence mounted against the president's staff, including testimony provided by former staff members in an investigation conducted by the Senate Watergate Committee, it was revealed that President Nixon had a tape-recording system in his offices and he had recorded many conversations.[3][4] Recordings from these tapes implicated the president, revealing he had attempted to cover up the questionable (and illegal) goings-on that had taken place after the break-in.[2][5] After a protracted series of bitter court battles, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the president had to hand over the tapes to government investigators; he ultimately complied.
Facing near-certain impeachment in the House of Representatives and a strong possibility of a conviction in the Senate, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974.[6][7] His successor, Gerald Ford, then issued a pardon to him
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June 17, 2013
The British newspaper The Guardian says a former U.S. intelligence contractor who recently exposed some U.S. surveillance operations has denied he had any contact with the Chinese government.
The newspaper said Edward Snowden made the comment Monday in a live question and answer session with Internet users, hosted on The Guardian website. Snowden has been hiding in the autonomous Chinese territory of Hong Kong since leaking U.S. intelligence documents to several newspapers earlier this month.
Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney denounced Snowden as a "traitor" in a Sunday television interview, warning that the former National Security Agency contractor could provide classified U.S. information to Chinese authorities.
In Monday's online interview, Snowden is quoted as calling Cheney's assertion a "predictable smear" and saying that being labeled a "traitor" by the former vice president "is the highest honor you can give an American."
Snowden's comments could not be independently verified.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying also denied that Snowden has spied for China, calling the suggestion "complete nonsense."
In her Monday briefing, Hua urged U.S. authorities to pay attention to international concerns about their surveillance operations and provide what she called a "necessary explanation." It was the first comment by a Chinese official on the NSA leaks
The newspaper said Edward Snowden made the comment Monday in a live question and answer session with Internet users, hosted on The Guardian website. Snowden has been hiding in the autonomous Chinese territory of Hong Kong since leaking U.S. intelligence documents to several newspapers earlier this month.
Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney denounced Snowden as a "traitor" in a Sunday television interview, warning that the former National Security Agency contractor could provide classified U.S. information to Chinese authorities.
In Monday's online interview, Snowden is quoted as calling Cheney's assertion a "predictable smear" and saying that being labeled a "traitor" by the former vice president "is the highest honor you can give an American."
Snowden's comments could not be independently verified.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying also denied that Snowden has spied for China, calling the suggestion "complete nonsense."
In her Monday briefing, Hua urged U.S. authorities to pay attention to international concerns about their surveillance operations and provide what she called a "necessary explanation." It was the first comment by a Chinese official on the NSA leaks
Sunday 16 June 2013
Wednesday 12 June 2013
Europe Warns The US who must respect the Privacy of their Citizens .
I think The US has become a world police country to use his coercing power to control either his citizens or others . Its democratic System has become without Check and balance and Transparercy Function . The Democratic Party President and the Republican Government , as a centralized group has been Governing the Americans , at present . Snowden is an outstanding person who shows his moral courage Appeal !
God bless with you Uncle Sam !
She also warns Holder that people's trust that the rule of law will be respected – including a high level of privacy protection for both US and EU citizens – is essential to the growth of the digital economy, including transatlantic business and the nature of the US response could affect the whole transatlantic relationship.
In the letter, released to the Guardian, Reding details her serious concerns that the Americans are "accessing and processing, on a large scale, the data of EU citizens using major US online service providers". She says programmes such as Prism, and the laws that authorise them, could have "grave adverse consequences for the fundamental rights of EU citizens".
EU officials have repeatedly raised with the Americans the scope of legislation such as the Patriot Act which can lead to European companies being required to transfer data to the US in breach of EU and national law. The commission's vice-president and justice commissioner says the exchange of data for law enforcement purposes must take place to the greatest possible extent through established formal channels.
"Direct access of US law enforcement to the data of EU citizens on servers of US companies should be excluded unless in clearly defined, exceptional and judicially reviewable situations," writes Reding.
Reding laid out the seven questions she said needed to be answered:
• Are Prism and other similar programmes aimed only at the data of US citizens and residents, or also – even primarily – at non-US nationals, including EU citizens?
• Is access to, collection of or processing of data on the basis of Prism and other programmes … limited to specific and individual cases, and if so what criteria are applied?
• Is the data of individuals accessed, collected or processed in bulk (or on a very wide scale, without justification relating to specific individual cases) either regularly or occasionally?
• Is the scope of these programmes restricted to national security or foreign intelligence or is it broader?
• What avenues, judicial or administrative, are available to companies in the US or the EU to challenge access to, collection of and processing of data under Prism or other programmes?
• What avenues are available to EU citizens to be told if they are affected by Prism or other similar programmes and how do they compare with those available to US citizens?
• What avenues are available to EU citizens or companies to challenge access to, collection of and processing of their personal data under Prism and similar programmes, and how does that compare with the rights of US citizens?
God bless with you Uncle Sam !
The European commission has sent US attorney general Eric Holder Jr a letter demanding explanations for American data snooping. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty
European Union officials have demanded "swift and concrete answers" to their requests for assurances from the US that its mass data surveillance programmes do not breach the fundamental privacy rights of European citizens.
The European commission's vice-president, Viviane Reding, has sent a letter with seven detailed questions to the US attorney general, Eric Holder Jr, demanding explanations about Prism and other American data snooping programmes.
Reding warns him that "given the gravity of the situation and the serious concerns expressed in public opinion on this side of the Atlantic" she expects detailed answers before they meet at an EU-US justice ministers' meeting in Dublin on Friday.She also warns Holder that people's trust that the rule of law will be respected – including a high level of privacy protection for both US and EU citizens – is essential to the growth of the digital economy, including transatlantic business and the nature of the US response could affect the whole transatlantic relationship.
In the letter, released to the Guardian, Reding details her serious concerns that the Americans are "accessing and processing, on a large scale, the data of EU citizens using major US online service providers". She says programmes such as Prism, and the laws that authorise them, could have "grave adverse consequences for the fundamental rights of EU citizens".
The EU's action came as the first constitutional challenge in the US to the widespread surveillance of American citizens was laid down. In a lawsuit filed in New York, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) accused the US government of a process that was "akin to snatching every American's address book".
The ACLU's lawsuit claimed the National Security Agency's acquisition of phone records of millions of Verizon users violated the first and fourth amendments, which guarantee citizens' right to association, speech and to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures.EU officials have repeatedly raised with the Americans the scope of legislation such as the Patriot Act which can lead to European companies being required to transfer data to the US in breach of EU and national law. The commission's vice-president and justice commissioner says the exchange of data for law enforcement purposes must take place to the greatest possible extent through established formal channels.
"Direct access of US law enforcement to the data of EU citizens on servers of US companies should be excluded unless in clearly defined, exceptional and judicially reviewable situations," writes Reding.
Reding laid out the seven questions she said needed to be answered:
• Are Prism and other similar programmes aimed only at the data of US citizens and residents, or also – even primarily – at non-US nationals, including EU citizens?
• Is access to, collection of or processing of data on the basis of Prism and other programmes … limited to specific and individual cases, and if so what criteria are applied?
• Is the data of individuals accessed, collected or processed in bulk (or on a very wide scale, without justification relating to specific individual cases) either regularly or occasionally?
• Is the scope of these programmes restricted to national security or foreign intelligence or is it broader?
• What avenues, judicial or administrative, are available to companies in the US or the EU to challenge access to, collection of and processing of data under Prism or other programmes?
• What avenues are available to EU citizens to be told if they are affected by Prism or other similar programmes and how do they compare with those available to US citizens?
• What avenues are available to EU citizens or companies to challenge access to, collection of and processing of their personal data under Prism and similar programmes, and how does that compare with the rights of US citizens?
Pressure over the surveillance programmes was also growing in Washington on Tuesday as a group of US senators demanded the Obama administration reveal how it interprets the laws that underpin them.
Monday 10 June 2013
Another Wikileaks and Julian Assange Case or the US Intelligence Leaker .
It is whether the government of the US may be stealing the the voice of public value , the biggest conspiracy in the American's History or a criminal investigation of the stolen government's property . AT present how do we think , What ! , Why ! and Then .. Happen ? , which is too complex .
The US Democratic Value has been threaten . Why is the Human Rights Watch Silent in the US secretly tapping into web giants' servers , the world community and the NSA's World wide monitoring of private Web traffic and phone records ?Edward Snowden, who leaked details of US internet spying, hopes intense media attention will keep him safe from retribution.
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Update ,13.6.2013.
In an interview at an undisclosed Hong Kong location published in the South China Morning Post on Wednesday, Mr Snowden said he believed there had been more than 61,000 NSA global hacking operations which targeted powerful "network backbones".
He said one of those institutions hacked was the Chinese University of Hong Kong, home to the Hong Kong Internet Exchange, which handles nearly all the Chinese territory's domestic web traffic.
Chinese officials have acknowledged they have seen a number of cyber-attacks from the US.
In the newspaper interview, Mr Snowden also said the US government was "trying to bully" Hong Kong into expelling him before he could reveal details of the NSA's alleged surveillance on the financial hub.
"All I can do is rely on my training and hope that world governments will refuse to be bullied by the United States into persecuting people seeking political refuge," the paper quoted Mr Snowden as saying.
"Things are very difficult for me in all terms, but speaking truth to power is never without risk," he said.
"It has been difficult, but I have been glad to see the global public speak out against these sorts of systemic violations of privacy."
US officials have yet to comment on the China-related allegations.
But in an online post, Chinese Air Force Colonel Dai Xu said: "I have always said, the United States' accusations about Chinese hacking attacks have always been a case of a thief crying for another thief to be caught."
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The information Snowden revealed included a secret court order directing Verizon Communications to turn over all its telephone records for a three-month period, and details about an NSA program code-named PRISM, that collected emails, chat logs and other types of data from Internet companies. These included Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL and Apple.
U.S. officials say the program is not designed to listen to telephone calls and the data they gathered has stopped several terrorist plots.
Snowden sent a written response to journalists Sunday, saying, "It is not that I do not value intelligence, but that I oppose ... omniscient, automatic, mass surveillance .... That seems to me a greater threat to the institutions of free society than missed intelligence reports, and unworthy of the costs.''
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( A young government Contractor will be a target ! )
The young government contractor who leaked details of a vast, secret US program to monitor internet users, said he would be made to pay dearly for his action, the Washington Post reports.
"I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end," Edward Snowden wrote in an indirect exchange with Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman.
Snowden gave an even starker view of his possible fate in an interview published on Sunday in Britain's Guardian newspaper, saying that he feared he might be snatched by the CIA.
"Yes, I could be rendered by the CIA. I could have people come after me. Or any of the third-party partners. They work closely with a number of other nations. Or they could pay off the Triads (Chinese mafia). Any of their agents or assets," he said.
But he said in his exchanges published in the Washington Post that he hoped the intense media attention he was now getting would help keep him safe and perhaps prompt some government to offer him protection.
Nearly a month ago, as he was taking the first steps that would lead to two newspaper exposes and a massive global furore, Snowden said he was aware of, and ready for the risks he was courting.
But he said it was worth it.
"Perhaps I am naive," he wrote, "but I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents."
Gellman said Snowden contacted him weeks before getting in touch with British newspaper The Guardian, which ultimately published the leaked information first.
The Post reporter said Snowden had asked on May 24 that the paper publish in full, within 72 hours, a 41-slide power point presentation describing PRISM, the NSA program used to gather data trails left by targeted foreign citizens using the internet outside the United States.
But the newspaper refused, preferring to take time to consult government officials about the potential harm to national security, and ultimately publishing just four of the slides, two weeks later.
In the meantime, Snowden contacted Glenn Greenwald at the Guardian, which published its own expose a day earlier.
Under PRISM, which has been running for six years, the US National Security Agency can issue directives to internet firms demanding access to emails, online chats, pictures, files, videos and more, uploaded by foreign users
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"My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them," Snowden said, in a Guardian video.
He said he had gone public because he could not "allow the US government to destroy privacy, Internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building."
Snowden flew to Hong Kong on May 20 after copying at the NSA's office in Hawaii the documents he intended to disclose, the Guardian said.
The US consulate in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong security bureau refused to comment on the case, but a senior pro-Beijing lawmaker in Hong Kong told reporters Snowden should probably leave the city.
Hong Kong is "obliged to comply with the terms of agreements" with the US government, Regina Ip said.
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Under the PRISM program, revealed by Snowden, the NSA can issue directives to Internet firms like Google or Facebook to win access to emails, online chats, pictures, files, videos and more, uploaded by foreign users.
On Monday, rights watchdog the American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion with the FISA court demanding it publish its findings as to the scope and constitutionality of its powers to trawl Internet and phone records.
"The government appears to have secretly given itself shockingly broad surveillance powers," ACLU staff attorney Alexander Abdo said.
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The US Democratic Value has been threaten . Why is the Human Rights Watch Silent in the US secretly tapping into web giants' servers , the world community and the NSA's World wide monitoring of private Web traffic and phone records ?Edward Snowden, who leaked details of US internet spying, hopes intense media attention will keep him safe from retribution.
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Update ,13.6.2013.
In the course of Wednesday's hearing, committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein revealed that phone records were only accessed by the NSA in cases where there was reason to suspect an individual was connected with al-Qaeda or Iran.
She also said the vast majority of records were never accessed and were deleted after five years. In an interview at an undisclosed Hong Kong location published in the South China Morning Post on Wednesday, Mr Snowden said he believed there had been more than 61,000 NSA global hacking operations which targeted powerful "network backbones".
He said one of those institutions hacked was the Chinese University of Hong Kong, home to the Hong Kong Internet Exchange, which handles nearly all the Chinese territory's domestic web traffic.
Chinese officials have acknowledged they have seen a number of cyber-attacks from the US.
In the newspaper interview, Mr Snowden also said the US government was "trying to bully" Hong Kong into expelling him before he could reveal details of the NSA's alleged surveillance on the financial hub.
"All I can do is rely on my training and hope that world governments will refuse to be bullied by the United States into persecuting people seeking political refuge," the paper quoted Mr Snowden as saying.
"Things are very difficult for me in all terms, but speaking truth to power is never without risk," he said.
"It has been difficult, but I have been glad to see the global public speak out against these sorts of systemic violations of privacy."
US officials have yet to comment on the China-related allegations.
But in an online post, Chinese Air Force Colonel Dai Xu said: "I have always said, the United States' accusations about Chinese hacking attacks have always been a case of a thief crying for another thief to be caught."
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The information Snowden revealed included a secret court order directing Verizon Communications to turn over all its telephone records for a three-month period, and details about an NSA program code-named PRISM, that collected emails, chat logs and other types of data from Internet companies. These included Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL and Apple.
U.S. officials say the program is not designed to listen to telephone calls and the data they gathered has stopped several terrorist plots.
Snowden sent a written response to journalists Sunday, saying, "It is not that I do not value intelligence, but that I oppose ... omniscient, automatic, mass surveillance .... That seems to me a greater threat to the institutions of free society than missed intelligence reports, and unworthy of the costs.''
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( A young government Contractor will be a target ! )
The young government contractor who leaked details of a vast, secret US program to monitor internet users, said he would be made to pay dearly for his action, the Washington Post reports.
"I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end," Edward Snowden wrote in an indirect exchange with Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman.
Snowden gave an even starker view of his possible fate in an interview published on Sunday in Britain's Guardian newspaper, saying that he feared he might be snatched by the CIA.
"Yes, I could be rendered by the CIA. I could have people come after me. Or any of the third-party partners. They work closely with a number of other nations. Or they could pay off the Triads (Chinese mafia). Any of their agents or assets," he said.
But he said in his exchanges published in the Washington Post that he hoped the intense media attention he was now getting would help keep him safe and perhaps prompt some government to offer him protection.
Nearly a month ago, as he was taking the first steps that would lead to two newspaper exposes and a massive global furore, Snowden said he was aware of, and ready for the risks he was courting.
But he said it was worth it.
"Perhaps I am naive," he wrote, "but I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents."
Gellman said Snowden contacted him weeks before getting in touch with British newspaper The Guardian, which ultimately published the leaked information first.
The Post reporter said Snowden had asked on May 24 that the paper publish in full, within 72 hours, a 41-slide power point presentation describing PRISM, the NSA program used to gather data trails left by targeted foreign citizens using the internet outside the United States.
But the newspaper refused, preferring to take time to consult government officials about the potential harm to national security, and ultimately publishing just four of the slides, two weeks later.
In the meantime, Snowden contacted Glenn Greenwald at the Guardian, which published its own expose a day earlier.
Under PRISM, which has been running for six years, the US National Security Agency can issue directives to internet firms demanding access to emails, online chats, pictures, files, videos and more, uploaded by foreign users
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"My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them," Snowden said, in a Guardian video.
He said he had gone public because he could not "allow the US government to destroy privacy, Internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building."
Snowden flew to Hong Kong on May 20 after copying at the NSA's office in Hawaii the documents he intended to disclose, the Guardian said.
The US consulate in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong security bureau refused to comment on the case, but a senior pro-Beijing lawmaker in Hong Kong told reporters Snowden should probably leave the city.
Hong Kong is "obliged to comply with the terms of agreements" with the US government, Regina Ip said.
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Under the PRISM program, revealed by Snowden, the NSA can issue directives to Internet firms like Google or Facebook to win access to emails, online chats, pictures, files, videos and more, uploaded by foreign users.
On Monday, rights watchdog the American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion with the FISA court demanding it publish its findings as to the scope and constitutionality of its powers to trawl Internet and phone records.
"The government appears to have secretly given itself shockingly broad surveillance powers," ACLU staff attorney Alexander Abdo said.
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Friday 7 June 2013
DPRK proposes direct talks with South Korea .
North and South Korea will hold Inter-government talks which will be an answer of who will start first for Korean Peninsula war or reunification .
The proposal was made by the DPRK's Commitee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea ( CPRK ) in a special statement :
PYONGYANG, June 6 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday proposed holding direct talks with South Korea on issues including the normalization of the operation in the Kaesong Industrial Zone (KIZ) and the resumption of tour of Mt. Kumgang, the official KCNA news agency reported.
The four-point proposal was made by the DPRK's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) in a special statement issued by its spokesman.
The proposal was accepted by South Korea's Ministry of Unification, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
"Seoul is considering the proposal in a positive light and hopes talks will erect trust between the two sides," the ministry's spokesman said in a statement.
The venue and time for such talks will be announced later, said Yonhap.
In its statement, the CPRK said that firstly, it proposed "talks between authorities of the north and the south for the normalization of the operation in the KIZ and the resumption of tour of Mt. Kumgang on the occasion of the anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration."
"Such humanitarian issues as the reunion of separated families and their relatives can be discussed at the talks," said the statement, quoting an unnamed CPRK spokesman as saying.
It added that the venue and the date of the talks can be set to the convenience of the south.
The June 15 declaration was issued at the historic 2000 summit meeting between late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and DPRK leader Kim Jong Il. It led to a period of rapprochement between the two sides that saw large-scale bilateral cooperation and the promotion of economic ties.
Secondly, the CPRK proposed promptly realizing visits to the KIZ and the tour of Mt. Kumgang by South Korean businessmen and opening the door to visits, contacts and cooperation among NGOs of South Korea.
Thirdly, the CPRK proposed realizing joint events to mark the 13th anniversary of the June 15 declaration and jointly commemorating the 41st anniversary of the July 4 joint statement on peaceful reunification in the presence of the authorities of both sides.
Fourthly, as soon as the South Korean authorities respond to the proposal, all relevant measures concerning communications and liaison will be taken including reopening the Panmunjom Red Cross liaison channel, said the statement.
"If the South Korean authorities truly stand for building confidence and improving the north-south relations, they should not miss this opportunity but positively respond to our bold decision and sincere proposal, away from misguided speculation and suspicion," said the statement.
Meanwhile, South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Thursday urged Pyongyang to accept her administration's trust-building policy initiative that could open a new era of peace and hope on the peninsula.
"North Korea (the DPRK) must accept the hand of reconciliation being offered by South Korea and the global community and strive for mutual prosperity," said Park in her Memorial Day speech at the Seoul National Cemetery.
Pyongyang shut down the KIZ in early April and pulled out 53,000 DPRK workers. South Korea also withdrew its workers starting on April 26 after Pyongyang rejected Seoul's proposal for working level talks.
The industrial zone, which is under the joint management of South Korea and the DPRK and a key symbol of inter-Korean economic cooperation, is facing its worst crisis since it opened in late 2004.
So the KOREA ARMISTICE AGREEMENT is still alive , to keep a claim , Two-party talks , ( South and North talks ) at first , and Four-party talks,( South Korea ,North Korea , the United States , and the PRC , talks ) at second , would be concerned clearly it . Upon agreement to the belligerents established the Korean Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ ) , which has since been patrolled by the KPA and ROKA , US , and joint UN Commands .
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The proposal was made by the DPRK's Commitee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea ( CPRK ) in a special statement :
PYONGYANG, June 6 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday proposed holding direct talks with South Korea on issues including the normalization of the operation in the Kaesong Industrial Zone (KIZ) and the resumption of tour of Mt. Kumgang, the official KCNA news agency reported.
The four-point proposal was made by the DPRK's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) in a special statement issued by its spokesman.
The proposal was accepted by South Korea's Ministry of Unification, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
"Seoul is considering the proposal in a positive light and hopes talks will erect trust between the two sides," the ministry's spokesman said in a statement.
The venue and time for such talks will be announced later, said Yonhap.
In its statement, the CPRK said that firstly, it proposed "talks between authorities of the north and the south for the normalization of the operation in the KIZ and the resumption of tour of Mt. Kumgang on the occasion of the anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration."
"Such humanitarian issues as the reunion of separated families and their relatives can be discussed at the talks," said the statement, quoting an unnamed CPRK spokesman as saying.
It added that the venue and the date of the talks can be set to the convenience of the south.
The June 15 declaration was issued at the historic 2000 summit meeting between late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and DPRK leader Kim Jong Il. It led to a period of rapprochement between the two sides that saw large-scale bilateral cooperation and the promotion of economic ties.
Secondly, the CPRK proposed promptly realizing visits to the KIZ and the tour of Mt. Kumgang by South Korean businessmen and opening the door to visits, contacts and cooperation among NGOs of South Korea.
Thirdly, the CPRK proposed realizing joint events to mark the 13th anniversary of the June 15 declaration and jointly commemorating the 41st anniversary of the July 4 joint statement on peaceful reunification in the presence of the authorities of both sides.
Fourthly, as soon as the South Korean authorities respond to the proposal, all relevant measures concerning communications and liaison will be taken including reopening the Panmunjom Red Cross liaison channel, said the statement.
"If the South Korean authorities truly stand for building confidence and improving the north-south relations, they should not miss this opportunity but positively respond to our bold decision and sincere proposal, away from misguided speculation and suspicion," said the statement.
Meanwhile, South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Thursday urged Pyongyang to accept her administration's trust-building policy initiative that could open a new era of peace and hope on the peninsula.
"North Korea (the DPRK) must accept the hand of reconciliation being offered by South Korea and the global community and strive for mutual prosperity," said Park in her Memorial Day speech at the Seoul National Cemetery.
Pyongyang shut down the KIZ in early April and pulled out 53,000 DPRK workers. South Korea also withdrew its workers starting on April 26 after Pyongyang rejected Seoul's proposal for working level talks.
The industrial zone, which is under the joint management of South Korea and the DPRK and a key symbol of inter-Korean economic cooperation, is facing its worst crisis since it opened in late 2004.
So the KOREA ARMISTICE AGREEMENT is still alive , to keep a claim , Two-party talks , ( South and North talks ) at first , and Four-party talks,( South Korea ,North Korea , the United States , and the PRC , talks ) at second , would be concerned clearly it . Upon agreement to the belligerents established the Korean Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ ) , which has since been patrolled by the KPA and ROKA , US , and joint UN Commands .
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Wednesday 5 June 2013
A former President of Taiwan attempted suicide !
I want to ask former president of the R.O.C. , Chen Shui-bian , why did you try to hang yourself on Sunday ( 2.6.2013 ) night to give up your life unreasonably as a leader of Taiwanese or the son of Taiwan ?
You should show your leadership manner and moral courage and stand up again when you fall down .
Would you know the " leadership " and " struggling "
Leadership is intangible , hard to measure , difficult to measure and difficult to describe .
But certainly they must include a measure of inherent ability to control and direct , selfconfidence bases on expert knowledge, initiave, loyalty , pride and a sense of responsibility .
If you get good results , fine .
If you get bad results , don't let it defeat . Keep on struggling until you get good results again .
( From some note of my record )
Taipei, June 3 (CNA) Former President Chen Shui-bian tried to hang himself Sunday night, apparently disillusioned over snags in his bid to rejoin his former party and the Legislature's move to absolve politicians of abuses of taxpayer funds, the Ministry of Justice said.
The Justice Ministry's Agency of Corrections issued a statement Monday detailing the suicide attempt by the former president, who is currently serving a 20-year jail term for corruption and money laundering in a hospital affiliated to Taichung Prison.
The statement said Chen tried to hang himself with a towel from a faucet 90 centimeters off the ground in a corner of his bathroom that was out of view of surveillance cameras.
Realizing that something was wrong, prison guards went to check on Chen and stopped him from going through with his plan, the Corrections Agency said.
According to the statement, Chen told prison staff he wanted to take his life to show his extreme dissatisfaction over his problems in trying to rejoin the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)and a revision to the Audit Act rammed through the Legislature on May 31.
The revision would exempt research grants given by the government to professors and special allowances for elected officials from being audited.
Because it is retroactive, it would absolve ex-lawmaker Yen Chin-piao, who is serving a three and half year jail term for using public funds to visit hostess bars and KTV lounges while serving as Taichung County speaker in 1999 and 2000.
"If visiting hostess bars can be absolved, why can't I be absolved for using my state affairs fund for diplomacy," Chen was quoted as saying by the agency.
The former president has been indicted for embezzling his state affairs fund, a discretionary fund given to presidents, but the case is still being tried.
Following the incident, Taichung Prison arranged for Chen to meet with a psychologist and gave him the chance to plant seeds in a garden, which improved his mental state, the agency said.
President Ma Ying-jeou has asked the Ministry of Justice to pay attention to the personal safety and the physical and mental condition of the former president, according to Presidential Office spokeswoman Garfie Li.
A spokeswoman for Chen's private medical team, meanwhile, said they had been worried about Chen's mental state.
Chen Chao-chi said the former president has always felt that he was wronged in the state affairs fund case, and it was another blow to him to see somebody getting different treatment.
As for the former president's application to rejoin the party, Legislator Ker Chien-ming said the issue would be solved next week.
Ker made the comment after he and fellow DPP Legislator Chen Chi-mai visited the former president at Taichung Prison Monday afternoon.
(By Kelven Huang, Sophia Yeh, Chen Ching-ping and Lilian Wu)
You should show your leadership manner and moral courage and stand up again when you fall down .
Would you know the " leadership " and " struggling "
Leadership is intangible , hard to measure , difficult to measure and difficult to describe .
But certainly they must include a measure of inherent ability to control and direct , selfconfidence bases on expert knowledge, initiave, loyalty , pride and a sense of responsibility .
If you get good results , fine .
If you get bad results , don't let it defeat . Keep on struggling until you get good results again .
( From some note of my record )
Taipei, June 3 (CNA) Former President Chen Shui-bian tried to hang himself Sunday night, apparently disillusioned over snags in his bid to rejoin his former party and the Legislature's move to absolve politicians of abuses of taxpayer funds, the Ministry of Justice said.
The Justice Ministry's Agency of Corrections issued a statement Monday detailing the suicide attempt by the former president, who is currently serving a 20-year jail term for corruption and money laundering in a hospital affiliated to Taichung Prison.
The statement said Chen tried to hang himself with a towel from a faucet 90 centimeters off the ground in a corner of his bathroom that was out of view of surveillance cameras.
Realizing that something was wrong, prison guards went to check on Chen and stopped him from going through with his plan, the Corrections Agency said.
According to the statement, Chen told prison staff he wanted to take his life to show his extreme dissatisfaction over his problems in trying to rejoin the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)and a revision to the Audit Act rammed through the Legislature on May 31.
The revision would exempt research grants given by the government to professors and special allowances for elected officials from being audited.
Because it is retroactive, it would absolve ex-lawmaker Yen Chin-piao, who is serving a three and half year jail term for using public funds to visit hostess bars and KTV lounges while serving as Taichung County speaker in 1999 and 2000.
"If visiting hostess bars can be absolved, why can't I be absolved for using my state affairs fund for diplomacy," Chen was quoted as saying by the agency.
The former president has been indicted for embezzling his state affairs fund, a discretionary fund given to presidents, but the case is still being tried.
Following the incident, Taichung Prison arranged for Chen to meet with a psychologist and gave him the chance to plant seeds in a garden, which improved his mental state, the agency said.
President Ma Ying-jeou has asked the Ministry of Justice to pay attention to the personal safety and the physical and mental condition of the former president, according to Presidential Office spokeswoman Garfie Li.
A spokeswoman for Chen's private medical team, meanwhile, said they had been worried about Chen's mental state.
Chen Chao-chi said the former president has always felt that he was wronged in the state affairs fund case, and it was another blow to him to see somebody getting different treatment.
As for the former president's application to rejoin the party, Legislator Ker Chien-ming said the issue would be solved next week.
Ker made the comment after he and fellow DPP Legislator Chen Chi-mai visited the former president at Taichung Prison Monday afternoon.
(By Kelven Huang, Sophia Yeh, Chen Ching-ping and Lilian Wu)
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