{"id":186440,"date":"2014-01-20T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/20\/contemptible-mccarthyite-behavior\/"},"modified":"2014-01-20T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T02:40:00","slug":"contemptible-mccarthyite-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/20\/contemptible-mccarthyite-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemptible McCarthyite Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/AKEAjgi.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/>It appears that that the heads of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Mike Rogers (R) and Dianne Feinstein(D),<sup>*<\/sup> have decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/20\/us\/politics\/congressional-leaders-suggest-snowden-was-working-for-russia.html\">imply that Edward Snowden was a Russian agent for a long time before he became a whistle blower<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The heads of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees suggested on Sunday that Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, might have been working for Russian spy services while he was employed at an agency facility in Hawaii last year and before he disclosed hundreds of thousands of classified government documents.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The lawmakers, Representative Mike Rogers, Republican of Michigan, and Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, offered no specific evidence that Mr. Snowden had cooperated with Moscow. Since Mr. Snowden\u2019s disclosure first became public last spring, there has been much speculation that he was collaborating with a foreign spy service.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Nearly a year later, however, there has been no public indication that the F.B.I.\u2019s investigation of Mr. Snowden\u2019s actions, bolstered by separate \u201cdamage assessment\u201d investigations at the N.S.A. and the Pentagon, has uncovered evidence that Mr. Snowden received help from a foreign intelligence service. A senior F.B.I. official said on Sunday that it was still the bureau\u2019s conclusion that Mr. Snowden acted alone. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is disgraceful, callous, and cowardly behavior, and it harkens back to the worst of Joe McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>Shame on Mike Rogers, and shame on Dianne Feinstein.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Full disclosure, her grandfather, Sam Goldman, and my great-grandfather, Harry Goldman, were brothers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that that the heads of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Mike Rogers (R) and Dianne Feinstein(D),* have decided to imply that Edward Snowden was a Russian agent for a long time before he became a whistle blower: The heads of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees suggested on Sunday that Edward J. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,969,1051,1102,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-intelligence","category-secrecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}