[SeaGypsy]

The whole point of Wikileaks is to expose heinous acts of governments & corporations through direct publishing of leaked information. The doublespeak factor relies on the basis of completely overlooking the heinous action of the USG to target the whistleblowers on the basis of nationalism & their lack thereof. The obvious implication is that national interests override international & internal ethics, without hesitation. If the current line of the US administration in this matter remains essentiallly bipartisan, the inference is that national ethics override international ethics absolutely & those advocating for the ICC model (where mongrel politicians get dragged to the Hague from wherever they choose to skulk & whatever country they have been leading), are kidding themselves. The ICC is not for leaders of G7 or even G20 countries, no way known!

[Keith_McClary]

FRENCH NEWSPAPER CITES U.S. “CONTEMPT” AS REASON TO OFFER SNOWDEN ASYLUM

France should respond to the U.S.’s “contempt” for its allies by giving Edward Snowden asylum, the leftist French daily newspaper Libération declared on Thursday.

France would send “a clear and useful message to Washington, by granting this bold whistleblower the asylum to which he is entitled,” editor Laurent Joffrin wrote (translated from the French) in an angry editorial titled “Un seul geste” — or “A single gesture.”

The editorial came just two days after Libération co-published a trove of documents obtained by WikiLeaks that recounted how the National Security Agency spied for years on the last three French presidents. (President Barack Obama spoke to French President Francois Hollande Wednesday and told him that — as of late 2013 — “we are not targeting and will not target the communications of the French President.”)