{"id":1961,"date":"2013-07-02T23:22:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pop-zeitschrift.de\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2013-07-02T23:22:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T21:22:18","slug":"kleine-artikelrevue-junivon-thomas-hecken2-7-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-siegen.de\/pop-zeitschrift\/2013\/07\/02\/kleine-artikelrevue-junivon-thomas-hecken2-7-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Kleine Artikelrevue Junivon Thomas Hecken2.7.2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Die aktuelle Auswahl frei zug\u00e4nglicher Netzartikel. Thema im Juni: Edward Snowden, National Security Agency.<!--more mehr--><\/p>\n<p>Edward Snowden sieht nicht nur aus wie ein liberaler, zeitgen\u00f6ssischer, kulturinteressierter junger Akademiker (ohne es zu sein), er hat auch seine Ansichten auf h\u00f6chst ansprechende Weise dargelegt. Frappierend auch bei ihm das anf\u00e4ngliche Zutrauen in Obama. Selbst ein Geheimdienstmitarbeiter, der kurz davor steht, seine Organisation zu verraten, macht sich Illusionen \u00fcber Inhaber der US-amerikanischen Pr\u00e4sidentschaft: \u00bbI believed in Obama\u2019s promises. I was going to disclose it [but waited because of his election]. He continued with the policies of his predecessor.\u00ab (Interview mit dem <a title=\"artikel guardian snowden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jun\/09\/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-why\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian<\/a>, 10.6.2013)<\/p>\n<p>Schnell gab es ausf\u00fchrliche Artikel zu Snowden und zur National Security Agency (NSA). David Bromwich weist in der \u00bbLondon Review of Books\u00ab in einem auch sonst lesenswerten Artikel auf die (aus europ\u00e4ischer Sicht) eigent\u00fcmliche Zusammenstellung von Snowdens Verteidigern hin (die Konstellation seiner Verfolger \u00fcberrascht allerdings nicht):<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbEvery public figure who is psychologically identified with the ways of power in America has condemned Snowden as a traitor, or deplored his actions as merely those of a criminal, someone about whom the judgment \u203ahe must be prosecuted\u2039 obviates any further judgment and any need for thought. Into this category immediately fell the Democratic and Republican leaders of Congress, Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid, as well as every lawmaker closely associated with \u203aintelligence oversight\u2039 of the War on Terror: Dianne Feinstein, Mike Rogers, Lindsey Graham \u2013 here, once again, cutting across party lines. Those who praised Snowden\u2019s action and (in some cases) his courage included the left-wing populist Michael Moore, the right-wing populist Glenn Beck, non-statist liberals such as Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Dick Durbin of Illinois, and non-statist Republicans from the West and South: Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah.\u00ab (\u00bb<a title=\"artikel london review of books bromwich\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v35\/n13\/david-bromwich\/diary\" target=\"_blank\">London Review of Books<\/a>\u00ab, 04.07.2013)<\/p>\n<p>Michael Ames nimmt in \u00bbHarper\u2019s Magazine\u00ab den Fall zum Anlass, auf die Geschichte der NSA zur\u00fcckzublicken, und reizt dabei den Pop-Appeal der Anstalt aus: \u00bbFrancis Ford Coppola\u2019s \u203aThe Conversation\u2039 (1974) starred Gene Hackman as a tech-savvy private eye who runs around San Francisco in a membranous trench coat, penetrating various barriers to privacy before eventually succumbing to the paranoia inherent to his work. Later that year, Seymour Hersh and the \u203aNew York Times\u2039 broke a bombshell about the CIA\u2019s \u203afamily jewels\u2039 operations\u2014a nefarious laundry list of overseas-assassination plots, break-ins, and surveillance of journalists (current Fox News commentator Brit Hume among them) and popular antiwar figures including Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lennon. The NSA grew apace with improvements in technology, and Cold War pressures built an unstoppable institutional inertia. By the mid-1970s, it was using a wafer-thin device that could pick up and isolate twenty-five distinct conversations in a room of fifty people. According to James Bamford\u2019s definitive history of the agency, \u203aThe Puzzle Palace\u2039, by the early 1980s, the NSA was collecting, recording, and storing all Soviet transmissions\u00a0\u2014 not just military or diplomatic or radar messages, but everything being broadcast, wired, typed, or spoken in Russian. This so-called \u203avacuum cleaner\u2039 approach became the norm for American surveillance, feeding an inexorable hunger to trawl as broadly and deeply for information as possible.\u00ab (\u00bb<a title=\"artikel harper's ames\" href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/on-the-nsas-rerun-of-that-70s-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harper\u2019s Magazine<\/a>\u00ab, 21.06.2013)<\/p>\n<p>Zu Recht haben gr\u00f6\u00dfere deutsche Medien im Prism-Zusammenhang auf den \u00e4lteren US-amerikanischen Satellitenkommunikations-\u203avacuum cleaner\u2039 Echelon verwiesen. Bezeichnenderweise sind sie aber zuvor nie der \u00e4u\u00dferst naheliegenden Frage nachgegangen, was wohl das aktuelle Internet-Pendant zu Echelon sein k\u00f6nnte. Angesichts des m\u00e4\u00dfigen Rufs, den Aussch\u00fcsse, Politiker, B\u00fcrokraten landl\u00e4ufig genie\u00dfen, sei hier abschlie\u00dfend auf den damaligen Echelon-Bericht des Europ\u00e4ischen Parlaments hingewiesen, der, im Urteil moderat, ein Zeugnis sorgf\u00e4ltiger, wenn auch mit bescheidenen Kompetenzen ausgestatteter Untersuchungsarbeit ablegt. Damaliges Ergebnis:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbAn der Existenz eines weltweit arbeitenden Kommunikationsabh\u00f6rsystems, das durch anteiliges Zusammenwirken der USA, des Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreichs, Kanadas, Australiens und Neuseelands im Rahmen des UKUSA-Abkommens funktioniert, kann nicht mehr gezweifelt werden.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>(<a title=\"bericht eu echelon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/sides\/getDoc.do?pubRef=-\/\/EP\/\/NONSGML+REPORT+A5-2001-0264+0+DOC+PDF+V0\/\/DE\" target=\"_blank\">Europ\u00e4isches Parlament<\/a>, Nichtst\u00e4ndiger Ausschuss \u00fcber das Abh\u00f6rsystem Echelon, Bericht v. 11.07.2001)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"\u201cKleine Artikelrevue Mai&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;i&gt;von Thomas Hecken&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;2.6.2013&lt;\/small&gt;\u201d bearbeiten\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pop-zeitschrift.de\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1837&amp;action=edit\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die aktuelle Auswahl frei zug\u00e4nglicher Netzartikel. 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