Monthly Archives: August 2013

Jesse Jackson Jr sentenced to 30 months in prison, Wife Sandi gets 12 months, Misuse of $750,000 in campaign funds, Wire and mail fraud false statements

Posted on August 14, 2013 | 46 comments

Jesse Jackson Jr sentenced to 30 months in prison, Wife Sandi gets 12 months, Misuse of $750,000 in campaign funds, Wire and mail fraud false statements

“Why did Patrick Fitzgerald and the US Justice Department wait until December 2008 to arrest Rod Blagojevich?”…Citizen Wells

“this guy is more Tony’d up than I am. …. they got the Chicago media to f…ing make me wear Rezko more. To f…ing dilute it from him.”…Rod Blagojevich wiretap November 12, 2008

 “There is enough corruption in Illinois so that all it takes is someone who is serious about finding it to uncover it. If a U.S. attorney is not finding corruption in Illinois, they’re not seriously looking for it.”…Northwestern Law Professor James Lindgren

 

From CNN August 14, 2013.

“Jesse Jackson Jr. going to jail”

“Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., once a rising Democratic star whose political fortunes imploded over the use of campaign finances to support lavish personal spending, was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Wednesday.

“I misled the American people,” Jackson, 48, said before U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson imposed the term, which she said should be served in Alabama.

The ex-Illinois lawmaker’s wife, Sandi, received a 12-month sentence for her role in her husband’s misuse of roughly $750,000 in campaign funds over several years.

As the judge read her sentence, Sandi Jackson wept. Her husband smiled slightly when he received his punishment, which was less than what the government sought.

The pair pleaded guilty in February to various charges — Jackson to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, and false statements; and his wife to filing false tax returns.”

“Prosecutors had sought a four-year sentence for Jackson and 18 months in jail and restitution of $168,550 for his wife.

“This is a sad day that involves a waste of talent,” prosecutor Matthew Graves said. “They were in the top 10 percent of household earnings in the United States. There’s just no need for this kind of conduct.”

Graves said that Jackson did not “deserve credit” for his job as a congressman.”

Read more:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/14/justice/jesse-jackson-jr-sentencing

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Benghazi whistleblower claims 400 US surface to air missiles stolen from Libya during attack, Attorney Joe diGenova, Al-Qaeda may use to shoot down airliners?

Posted on August 14, 2013 | 19 comments

Benghazi whistleblower claims 400 US surface to air missiles stolen from Libya during attack, Attorney Joe diGenova, Al-Qaeda may use to shoot down airliners?

“we do know that Islamic extremists with ties to Al-Qa’ida participated in the attack.”…CIA Benghazi talking points memo

“The question that I had in my mind, was why did we not do something to protect our forces?”…Charles Woods, father of slain Navy Seal

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”…Barack Obama

 

 

From the Mail Online August 13, 2013.
“400 US surface-to-air missiles were ‘STOLEN’ from Libya during the Benghazi attack and are ‘now in the hands of Al Qaeda’, claims whistleblower”

“Four hundred American surface-to-air missiles were ‘taken from Libya’ during the terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, a former U.S. Attorney who represents whistleblowers claimed on Monday.

He added that the U.S. intelligence community is terrified they might be used to shoot down airliners.

Joe diGenova, whose wife Victoria Toensing – a former deputy assistant attorney general – also represents Benghazi witnesses and others with knowledge of the terror attack, told WMAL radio that the loss of those missiles is also one the reason the U.S. State Department shut down 19 embassies across the Middle East last week.

‘A lot of people have come forward to share information with us,’ he said during the radio station’s ‘Mornings On The Mall’ program Monday morning.
‘We have earned that one of the reasons the administration is so deeply concerned’ is that ‘there were 400 surface-to-air missiles stolen, and that they are … in the hands of many people, and that the biggest fear in the U.S. intelligence community is that one of these missiles will be used to shoot down an airliner. 400 missiles, surface-to-air missiles, taken from Libya.’

Asked if the missiles are now ‘in the hands of al-Qaeda operatives,’ DiGenova replied, ‘That is what these people are telling us.'”

“DiGenova said his sources are ‘former intelligence officials who stay in constant contact with people in the Special Ops and intelligence community.’

‘And it’s pretty clear that the biggest concern right now are 400 missiles which have been diverted in Libya and have gotten in the hands of some very ugly people.’

diGenova said that while he was uncertain whether the stolen weapons were being kept at the U.S. Consulate’s CIA annex, ‘it is clear that the annex was somehow involved in the process of the distribution of those missiles.’

A longtime legal fixture inside the beltway, diGenova was U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia for four years beginning in 1983, and later was an Independent Counsel appointed to investigate a State Department official who ordered politically embarrassing searches of the passport files of Bill Clinton, Clinton’s mother and Ross Perot before the 1992 presidential election.

In 2007 the New York State Senate retained him to investigate then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer over allegations that he ordered the State Police to track the whereabouts of Republican State Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno when he used police escorts to travel to and around New York City.”
Read more:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2390642/400-surface-air-missiles-STOLEN-Libya-Benghazi-attack-says-whistle-blowers-attorney.html#ixzz2bwTE0D4g

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Snowden forces Obama’s hand on surveillance program, Patriot whistleblower or criminal?, New reforms of government programs, Russian asylum prompted Obama to cancel planned meeting

Posted on August 10, 2013 | 78 comments

Snowden forces Obama’s hand on surveillance program, Patriot whistleblower or criminal?, New reforms of government programs, Russian asylum prompted Obama to cancel planned meeting

“The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me,”…Edward Snowden

“Snowden has shared encoded copies of all the documents he took so that they won’t disappear if he does, Glenn Greenwald tells Eli Lake.”… The Daily Beast June 25, 2013

 

“A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. Even when he is alone he can never be sure that he is alone. Wherever he may be, asleep or awake, working or resting, in his bath or in bed, he can be inspected without warning and without knowing that he is being inspected. Nothing that he does is indifferent.”…George Orwell, “1984″

 

Edward Snowden.

Patriot, whistleblower or criminal?

Too early to tell.

From NBC News August 9, 2013.

“Snowden revelations force Obama’s hand on surveillance program”

“NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s revelations have forced President Barack Obama’s hand, leading the president to announce new reforms of the government’s classified surveillance programs.

After his administration issued repeated defenses of a National Security Agency monitoring program that collects Americans’ phone and Internet data, Obama announced during a press conference Friday afternoon that reforms to the system will make the collection activities more transparent and “give the American people additional confidence that there are additional safeguards against abuse.”

Obama said the changes will include changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court system — which currently greenlights requests for data gathering —  as well as the creation of both an internal NSA position devoted to privacy and an external working group to evaluate transparency in the program.  Officials will also launch a new website next week that will serve as “a hub for further transparency” for interested members of the public.

“Given the history of abuse by governments, it’s right to ask questions about surveillance by governments, particularly as technology is reshaping every aspects of our lives,” he said.

Obama’s announcement comes even as Snowden — the defense-contractor-turned-fugitive who released information to reporters about the NSA’s monitoring programs — has been charged with theft of government property and two offenses under U.S. espionage law.

He continues to evade extradition to the United States under a temporary asylum granted by the Russian government  – an agreement that prompted Obama to cancel a planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in protest.

Snowden has generated strong feelings in the wake of disclosures, with many lawmakers decrying him as treasonous for releasing the information while others have used the case to press their concerns about how the government is watching American citizens.

Obama bluntly rejected the idea Friday that Snowden’s actions were patriotic.

“No, I don’t think Mr. Snowden is a patriot,” he said, adding that he would have preferred a “lawful, orderly” debate over privacy concerns rather than finger-pointing in the wake of the leaks.

But while the president has declined in the past to say whether he considers Snowden a “whistleblower” as supporters of the alleged leaker claim, Snowden’s actions were at the very least a catalyst for the coming reforms, which he says will establish additional layers of oversight to reign in possible abuses of the NSA practices.”

“”The fact that I said that the programs are operating in a way that prevents abuse — that continues to be true without the reforms,” he said. “The question is ‘how do I make the American people more comfortable?'”

And, at the moment, polling shows that’s not the case.

A NBC/WSJ poll last month showed that 56 percent of Americans say they’re worried the United States will go too far in violating privacy rights. That’s a dramatic shift from the national environment after the 9/11 terror attacks, when 55 percent of Americans said they worried that the United States would not go far enough in monitoring potential terrorists who live in the United States.”

Read more:

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/09/19950803-snowden-revelations-force-obamas-hand-on-surveillance-program?lite

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Obama Obamacare create 110 part time jobs for every new full time job since March, Keith Hall former BLS chief, Employers cut back on workers hours, Fewer hours no insurance

Posted on August 5, 2013 | 131 comments

Obama Obamacare create 110 part time jobs for every new full time job since March, Keith Hall former BLS chief, Employers cut back on workers hours, Fewer hours no insurance

“11.4%: What the U.S. unemployment rate would be if labor force participation were back to January 2008 levels.” …James Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute, June 2013

“Approximately 1 million more people could only find part time employment since Obama took office in January 2009.”…Citizen Wells August 2013

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”…George Orwell, “1984″

 

From the Atlanta Journal Constitution August 5, 2013.

“Welcome to the Obamcare economy. From McClatchy:

“The July government employment report released Friday showed the job market treading water.”And a closer look at one of the two measures the Labor Department uses to gauge employment suggests that part-time work accounted for almost all the job growth that’s been reported over the past six months. …” ‘Over the last six months, of the net job creation, 97 percent of that is part-time work,’ said Keith Hall, a senior researcher at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center. ‘That is really remarkable.'”Hall is no ordinary academic. He ran the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the agency that puts out the monthly jobs report, from 2008 to 2012. Over the past six months, he said, the Household Survey shows 963,000 more people reporting that they were employed, and 936,000 of them reported they’re in part-time jobs.” ‘That is a really high number for a six-month period,’ Hall said. ‘I’m not sure that has ever happened over six months before.’ “”
“How, then, to explain what’s happened since January? Back to the McClatchy article and Hall, the former BLS chief:

“Hall speculated that the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, shorthanded as Obamacare, might be resulting in employers shifting workers to part-time status to avoid coming health care obligations.”

‘There’s been so much talk about the effects of Obamacare on part-time work,’ he said. ‘This is such an unusual thing to see.’ ”
By “so much talk,” Hall of course was referring to the numerous stories of employers that are cutting back on their workers’ hours to avoid qualifying for Obamacare’s mandate to provide health insurance for them. Just yesterday, the AJC reported on the various ways local employers are trying to cope with the looming mandate (subscription to MyAJC required for link), including the decision by AAA Parking to move 250 full-time workers to part-time status. Many of the Americans affected by these business decisions are, of course, the very people Obamacare was supposed to help.

In fact, we can get even more specific than the January-July numbers Hall outlined.

Looking at the BLS data, the number of Americans working part-time for economic reasons — i.e., not because they want to work part-time — hit a multi-year low in March. Since then, part-time jobs have accounted for a whopping 99.1 percent of all jobs created. Over the past four months, on a net basis, just 9,000 full-time jobs have been added in the entire United States.

That means there have been 110 part-time jobs created for every one full-time job since March.”

Read more:

http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/kyle-wingfield/2013/aug/05/obamacare-economy-35-part-time-jobs-every-new-full/

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Obama BLS jobs data recap August 3, 2013, Fact vs fiction, Employment data rectified as in 1984, Orwellian wordsmithing or outright lies?, Labor force dropouts part time workers and food stamps reveal truth

Posted on August 3, 2013 | 58 comments

Obama BLS jobs data recap August 3, 2013, Fact vs fiction, Employment data rectified as in 1984, Orwellian wordsmithing or outright lies?, Labor force dropouts part time workers and food stamps reveal truth

“11.4%: What the U.S. unemployment rate would be if labor force participation were back to January 2008 levels.” …James Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute, June 2013

“Approximately 1 million more people could only find part time employment since Obama took office in January 2009.”…Citizen Wells August 2013

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”…George Orwell, “1984”

 

 

You are being lied to.

Don’t take my word for it.

Look it up.

This past week, we received the usual Orwellian reporting on jobs, unemployment rate, initial claims and the economy.

This Market Watch heading was typical.

“Payrolls disappoint,
but unemployment falls.”

No mention of the one month drop in the Labor Force Participation Rate or the huge drop since Obama took the White House in January 2009.

On Thursday the BLS reported initial claims were 326,000. No wonder. Think about it. Huge numbers have dropped out of the labor force.

And part time workers. You don’t have to fire them, just cut back on their hours.

From the BLS Employment Situation report for July 2013.
“Both the number of unemployed persons, at 11.5 million, and the unemployment rate, at 7.4 percent, edged down in July. Over the year, these measures were down by 1.2 million and 0.8 percentage point, respectively.”

“The civilian labor force participation rate was 63.4 percent in July, little changed over the month.”

“Among the marginally attached, there were 988,000 discouraged workers in July, up by 136,000 from a year earlier.”

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

The  Labor Force Participation Rate dropped .1 percent in July. That is significant.

The increase of 136,000 discouraged worker from 2012 is certainly significant.

So, do you believe that the unemployment rate is 7.4 percent and that the jobs situation has improved since Obama took office in January 2009?

                                                                               Jan 2009          July 2013
Labor Force
Participation Rate                                                 65.7                    63.4
Employment
Population Ratio                                                   60.6                    58.7
Could only find
part time work                                                    1,676,000   2,665,000
Not in Labor Force                                         81,293,000  88,560,000
Not in Labor Force
Want a Job Now                                                5,866,000    6,862,000
Not in labor force
Discouraged                                                         734,000         988,000

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July unemployment rate August 2, 2013, ADP jobs report in sync with BLS, Initial claims reflect labor force dropouts, NFIB Trimtabs SurePayroll reports minimal or decreased July hiring

Posted on August 2, 2013 | 38 comments

July unemployment rate August 2, 2013, ADP jobs report in sync with BLS, Initial claims reflect labor force dropouts, NFIB Trimtabs SurePayroll reports minimal or decreased July hiring

“North Carolina’s unemployment rate fell for the fourth consecutive month in May to 8.8 percent, but the slight drop was largely due to a shrinking labor force rather than the creation of new jobs, economists said.”…Raleigh News Observer June 21, 2013

“11.4%: What the U.S. unemployment rate would be if labor force participation were back to January 2008 levels.” …James Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute, June 2013

“the Times of the nineteenth of December had published the official forecasts of the output of various classes of consumption goods in the fourth quarter of 1983, which was also the sixth quarter of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. Today’s issue contained a statement of the actual output, from which it appeared that the forecasts were in every instance grossly wrong. Winston’s job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones.”…George Orwell, “1984″

You are being lied to.

*** Update 8:30 AM ***

July unemployment rate 7.4 %

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000.

***  Attention: Once again, the labor force dropped .1 % !!!  ***

Labor Force Participation Rate 63.4 %.

The US Labor Department will release the July 2013 unemployment rate in a few minutes.

Regardless of what the rate is, it will be misleading due to the record drop in the Labor Force Participation Rate and increase in part time workers.

This comes on the heels of two jobs reports this week.

Yesterday, the BLS reported initial claims of 321,000, the lowest in 5 years. This number is a reflection of a smaller labor force and a smaller number of full time workers.

The biggest suspect report came from ADP.

“ADP NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT REPORT: PRIVATE SECTOR EMPLOYMENT INCREASED BY 200,000 JOBS IN JULY

ROSELAND, N.J. – July 31, 2013 – Private-sector employment increased by 200,000 jobs from June to July, according to the July ADP National Employment Report®. Broadly distributed to the public each month, free of charge, the ADP National Employment Report is produced by ADP®, a leading provider of human capital management solutions, in collaboration with Moody’s Analytics. The report is derived from ADP’s actual payroll data and measures the change in total nonfarm private employment each month on a seasonally-adjusted basis. June’s job gain was revised upward from 188,000 to 198,000.
July 2013 Report Highlights*

View the ADP National Employment Report Infograph at http://www.adpemploymentreport.com.

Total U.S. Nonfarm Private Employment: 200,000

 By Company Size
 Small businesses: 82,000
o 1-19 employees 51,000
o 20-49 employees 31,000
 Medium businesses: 60,000
o 50-499 employees 60,000
 Large businesses: 57,000
o 500-999 employees 7,000
o 1,000+ employees 50,000”

Read more:

http://www.adpemploymentreport.com/2013/July/NER/NER-July-2013.aspx

There are several problems with the ADP report.

From the ADP methodology:

“Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) has joined with Moody’s Analytics in order to use ADP’s large payroll data set to predict private-sector employment prior to the release of the CES report.”

Read it for yourself.

SWAG may be too kind a word for this.

From NFIB, National Federation of Independent Business, July 31, 2013.
“NFIB Jobs Statement: Few Jobs and Poor Prospects”
“Chief economist for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) William C. Dunkelberg, issued the following statement on July’s job numbers, based on NFIB’s monthly economic survey that will be released on Tuesday, August 13th. The survey was conducted in July and reflects the responses of 1,615 sampled NFIB members: graph

“July was another slow month for jobs among NFIB’s 350,000 owners, with the average increase in employment coming in at a negative 0.11 workers per firm, the third negative monthly reading in a row.”

http://www.nfib.com/press-media/press-media-item?cmsid=63483

From CNBC July 31, 2013.

“Big jobs number coming? Data firm TrimTabs says just 23,000”

“Before anyone gets too excited about job prospects for July, a data firm is reporting that payroll growth was much slower than expected.

TrimTabs estimated Wednesday that employment slowed to a trickle, with just 23,000 positions added for the month.”

“In June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the economy added 195,000, while TrimTabs put the number at a relatively close 182,000. In May, though, the disparity was far greater, with the government asserting 195,000 while TrimTabs estimated 135,000.”

“TrimTabs isn’t the only outfit with a dim view of July jobs, though.

Small-business payroll firm SurePayroll said hiring actually decreased 0.1 percent for the month.”

Read more:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100928017

In case you have forgotten.

From the BLS, Bureau of Labor Statistics, March 22, 2013.
“Mass Layoffs Data Discontinued |
On March 1, 2013, President Obama ordered into effect the across-the-board spending cuts (commonly referred to as sequestration) required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended. Under the order, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) must cut its current budget by more than $30 million, 5 percent of the current 2013 appropriation, by September 30, 2013. In order to help achieve these savings and protect core programs, the BLS will eliminate two programs, including Mass Layoff Statistics, and all “measuring green jobs” products. The final release of Mass Layoffs Statistics data will occur on June 21st, with publication of the May 2013 data.”

Welcome to the age of Big Brother.

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Greensboro NC metro unemployment rate 9.7 percent and better?, Berkshire Hathaway owned News Record article, Labor force dropped .7 percent from 2012

Posted on August 1, 2013 | 8 comments

Greensboro NC metro unemployment rate 9.7 percent and better?, Berkshire Hathaway owned News Record article, Labor force dropped .7 percent from 2012

“North Carolina’s unemployment rate fell for the fourth consecutive month in May to 8.8 percent, but the slight drop was largely due to a shrinking labor force rather than the creation of new jobs, economists said.”…Raleigh News Observer June 21, 2013

“The NC Labor Force Participation Rate plummeted 1.2 percent from Jan to June 2013.”...Citizen Wells

“the Times of the nineteenth of December had published the official forecasts of the output of various classes of consumption goods in the fourth quarter of 1983, which was also the sixth quarter of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. Today’s issue contained a statement of the actual output, from which it appeared that the forecasts were in every instance grossly wrong. Winston’s job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones.”…George Orwell, “1984″

You are being lied to.

Before I chastise and correct the national media and the misleading ADP jobs report from yesterday and misleading BLS initial claims report from this morning, I am compelled to address the jobs reporting in NC first.

From the Greensboro News Record July 31, 2013.

“Area unemployment rate shows some improvement”

“The unemployment rate in the Greensboro-High Point metro area continued to improve steadily in June to 9.7 percent compared with 10.4 percent in June 2012, according to state figures.

But 0.7 percentage points is only a moderate improvement in the employment picture and not a dramatic step towards full recovery, said economist Andrew Brod, a senior research fellow at UNCG.

“Given how weak this recovery is, that’s great, but it’s sort of damning with faint praise,” Brod said.”

“Continuing claims for unemployment spiked 52 percent from 84,699 for the week ending June 29 to 128,739 for the week ending July 6.

The increase of 44,040 continuing claims is the largest in North Carolina in more than a decade, said David C. Ribar, an economics professor at UNCG.

The figure represents the number of people who have not dropped out of the system because they are still eligible for benefits or they haven’t found jobs.

But the spike had a simple explanation, said Larry Parker, a spokesman for the state division: Thousands of people who lost their benefits on July 1 continued to file for them out of habit.”

Read more:

http://www.news-record.com/news/article_8e9c55fc-f927-11e2-ae70-001a4bcf6878.html

In fairness to the News Record, they did not paint a completely rosy picture.

And 9.7 % unemployment is nothing to shout about.

But the article stated that unemployment had dropped .7 percent from 2012.

What the article did not mention is the fact that the Labor Force Participation Rate in NC dropped .7 percent as well.

Look it up.

http://esesc23.esc.state.nc.us/d4/LausSelection.aspx

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Snowden granted asylum in Russia, NSA whistleblower leaves airport, Russian Immigration Service papers, Granted temporary asylum

Posted on August 1, 2013 | 5 comments

Snowden granted asylum in Russia, NSA whistleblower leaves airport, Russian Immigration Service papers, Granted temporary asylum

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed,
If you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly,
You may come to the moment when you will have to fight
with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.”…Winston Churchill

“The fact that our government is attempting to censor our service members from the truth of what is happening here at home is truly frightening and disheartening,”…Cindy McGee,  mother of  airman stationed in the UAE

“A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. Even when he is alone he can never be sure that he is alone. Wherever he may be, asleep or awake, working or resting, in his bath or in bed, he can be inspected without warning and without knowing that he is being inspected. Nothing that he does is indifferent. His friendships, his relaxations, his behaviour towards his wife and children, the expression of his face when he is alone, the words he mutters in sleep, even the characteristic movements of his body, are all jealously scrutinized. Not only any actual misdemeanour, but any eccentricity, however small, any change of habits, any nervous mannerism that could possibly be the symptom of an inner struggle, is certain to be detected. He has no freedom of choice in any direction whatever.”…George Orwell, “1984″

From the Washington Times August 1, 2013.

“Edward Snowden granted asylum in Russia, leaves airport”
“Edward Snowden, the man at the heart of the National Security Agency information leak, was granted asylum from Russia Thursday and finally left the airport.

Russian media outlet RT reported that Mr. Snowden’s attorney, Anatoly Kucherena, said early Thursday: “I have just handed over to him papers from the Russian Immigration Service. They are what he needs to leave the transit zone.”

Fox News reported Mr. Snowden left Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport and stepped onto Russian soil.

The former contractor’s lawyer would not disclose Mr. Snowden’s location within Russia because of security concerns.”

Read more:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/1/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-granted-asylum-ru/

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