Owner Of Snowden Email Service, Lavabit, Not Allowed To Discuss Case With His Own Lawyer

[matthewf]

[hlthe2b]

1. I have had it with this crap... Not even allowed to discuss with one's lawyer?

Good Gawd, how does anyone defend THAT?

[RC]

2. That is the whole idea.

Threaten them with long prison terms if the say anything to anybody. How else are they going to silence people who might stand up to and object to their dictatorial "Our Word is Law", of our self-appointed Overlords, no matter how illegal or unconstitutional our Overlords action might be.

[Historic NY]

3. Really he can't discuss it with his lawyer but he can tell the world world....

[hlthe2b]

4. No, indeed he can NOT.

The US and its insane surveillance/NSA policies have rendered our justice system a total joke worthy of a 3rd rate banana republic.

And, yes, MY PRESIDENT has done NOTHING to reign it in and I'm damned mad.

[RC]

5. All he did was say was he can not discuss it with anyone , including his Lawyer.

That is what he is telling the world. That is all he said. He never said what, or even eluded to what it was he could not talk about.

[DeSwiss]

15. Tell the world what?

[90-percent]

6. nostalgic

Reminds me of the Soviet Government during the entire cold war.

Sure smells like a totalitarian fascist police state here in America these days.....


-90% Jimmy

[lrellok]

7. THere is this thing called right to council.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_counsel yeah, why these people are not suing the government is beyond me. If he can say he could not tell his lawyer, then that alone is grounds for a suit.

[Jack Rabbit]

9. It's pretty hard to sue the government when you can't tell an attorney about why you should sue

Catch 22.

[Jack Rabbit]

8. This goes a long way to explaining why Mr. Snowden isn't coming back to face charges

I will again say: Maintaining the national security state is not protecting America, it it destroying the village -- or, if you prefer, the shining beacon on the hill -- in order to save it. I will not vote for any candidate for public office who says otherwise.

There was a time when Mr. Snowden could return to America with full confidence that he would receive a fair trial. That was possible even when Nixon was president. I regret to say that it is much less likely to be the case now.

I voted for Barack Obama in 2008 thinking that his administration would undo the institutional damage done to America by the Bush Junta. I was expecting more than just proscribing waterboarding as an interrogation technique. I was expecting nothing less less than the dismantling of the national security state. Instead, he failed to prosecute those in the Bush Junta who conspired to undermine the right of private citizens to due process of law or to be secure in their private papers and effects and he asked for new powers to violate civil liberties and put some largely meaningless procedural window dressing around the powers granted to the usurper Bush.

[iamthebandfanman]

11. Whod ya vote for in 2012

if ya don't mind me asking

[Jack Rabbit]

12. Obama

In 2012, it was with some reservations.

I could also say that he was better than Mitt the Twit, but I don't like left handed compliments.

[savannah43]

10. Well that proves that we're officially a fascist country.

Welcome to the Corporate States of America!

[cantbeserious]

13. Kick And Recommend

eom

[DeSwiss]

14. Oh yeah.....

...they forget to mention that in addition to kidnapping, torture, and murdering Americans and that whole ''due process'' thing -- you also no longer have a right to consul. Because security.

There's just no telling how ''unsafe'' talking to a lawyer about your rights could make things. And your security and protection is our only concern.

- It seems to me that they're now actually using Orwell's scripts......

K&R