SAMPLE COMMENT:

Ok Glen, you owe some back taxes. In contrast, the US and UK have been hacking into the emails and other private communications of millions of their citizens and billions of people across the globe. And in the process have undermined the rule of law, democracy, and freedom; and have taken us one giant step towards a totalitarian state.

Please don't let them grind you down and please remember that people across the world are supremely grateful for what you and in particular Ed Snowden have done. Great job Mr Greenwald.

by Glenn Greenwald, guardian ... Read more »

The Department of Justice admitted in May that it had secretly subpoenaed records on phone lines used by the AP as part of an investigation into the leaking of classified information during the spring of 2012. (See, "The AP spying scandal and the crisis of American democracy”)

The monitoring of the AP is part of a national and international spying program that has involved an unprecedented attack on democratic rights, including the freedom of the press and prohibitions against u ... Read more »

Administration reading from the 'rule by fear' handbook

I live in Hong Kong. And when the news broke that Snowden had decided to take refuge in my city, I was puzzled at first. But then, as I read and listened to pundit after pundit in the US declare that Hong Kong was a crazy choice for a whistleblower on the lam, I began to realize: no, they're absolutely wrong. Choosing Hong Kong is clearly something Edward Snowden thought through, and very well indeed. Heck, many of the reasons why he's probably in Hong Kong are the same reasons I came here, too.

1. Under our (still largely intact and transparent) Hong Kong rule of law, the wheels of justice grind slowly. Very slowly.

This infographic from the South China Morning Post gives you a good picture of all the potential routes that Snowden's case might take through our legal system. The main thing to note here is the "typical" length of time it takes to move a case betw ... Read more »