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defector from the NSA was in Hong Kong. Now there was no point in keeping his identity a secret. On June 9" Poitras released the famous video showing Snowden a secret NSA documents, At this point, Snowden shone so brightly as a beacon that every player in the in the intelligence game would realize that Snowden was a pawn to be captured. Snowden still was able to fog over his travel plans, at least in the media, by telling reporters that he intended to remain in Hong Kong and fight extradition in court, but certainly the Russian officials whom he contacted knew he had other plans. They had even relayed his request to go to Russia to Putin. His movements were also no secret to sophisticated intelligence services. In an era in Hong Kong ii which cell phones emit their GPS location every 3 seconds and CCTV cameras scan many street intersections, it is not easy to conceal one’s whereabouts. In Snowden’s case, his photograph was constantly on television, posters and giant billboards. Even if he threw away his own phone, his retinue of lawyers and helpers could be tracked with ease. China, who’s President, Xi Jinping was meeting President Obama for the first time in Rancho Mirage, California on June 9", would have certainly been keenly interested in the unfolding Snowden affair. After all, Obama had publically put on his agenda that week calling Xi to task for Chinese cyber espionage. Such a charge was undermined by Snowden’s globally-publicized accusation that the United States was engaged in massive cyber espionage. In any event, as US intelligence verified, China had, almost immediately after the release of the video, instituted a full court press of Snowden in Hong Kong. Its security apparatus presumably had the means to monitor his room as well as those of Poitras and Greenwald. From that moment on, it is not likely that any communication or movement, Snowden made during his next 18 days in Hong Kong would escape its scrutiny. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020338
February 8, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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if only a television program had a monologue about this
February 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Intelligence service had engaged in a covert war with the NSA. The Russian intelligence service is, as far as is known, the only intelligence service in the world that ever succeeded in penetrating the NSA. A number of NSA employees also defected to Moscow. The history of this venerable enterprise is instructive. The first two defectors in the NSA’s history were William Martin and Bernon Mitchell. They were mathematicians working on the NSA’s decryption machines who went to Moscow via Cuba in 1960. The Russian intelligence service, then called the KGB, went to great lengths to publicize their defections. It even organized a 90-minute long press conference for them on September 6, 1960 at the Hall of Journalists and invited to it all the foreign correspondents in Moscow. Before television cameras, the defectors proceeded to denounce the NSA’s activities. Martin told how the NSA breached international laws by spying on Germany, Britain and other NATO allies. Mitchell, for his part, suggested that the NSA’s practice of breaking international laws could ignite a nuclear war. Indeed, he justified their joint defection to Russia in heroic whistle-blowing terms, saying, "We would attempt to crawl to the moon if we thought it would lessen the threat of an atomic war." The NSA historian assessed little damage had been done since the NSA quickly could change the codes they compromised. He noted: “The Communist spymasters would HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020323
February 8, 2026 at 2:46 PM
nitenurz.bsky.social
All those years of doing television has served him well- he spins things effortlessly. You’d think he was telling the truth if you didn’t know better.
February 8, 2026 at 2:46 PM
sbeen.bsky.social
"The Washington Post description of the Super Bowl halftime show, with Bad Bunny showcasing Latin music before a global television audience expected to top 100 million, will illustrate the nation’s uncertain grasp of the fact that Puerto Ricans are Americans."
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The Super Bowl halftime show, with Bad Bunny showcasing Latin music before a global television audience expected to top 100 million, will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star delivers an explicit political message.
The enthusiasm — and scorn — surrounding Bad Bunny’s star turn at the Super Bowl
The halftime show will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star makes an explicit message about Trump’s deportation drive.
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February 8, 2026 at 2:44 PM
badass500.bsky.social
I'm so disturd the very station reporting ICE Bad behavior

Is taking money from ICE to advertise for employment

Not being a fan of television I know why

It's so gross 🤢

I deleted Spotify now this 🤷
February 8, 2026 at 2:44 PM
cl0wnhammer.bsky.social
La couverture des JO sur France télévision est vraiment naze... Deux heure qu'on est sur le biathlon et la 30 minutes de rien, de franchouillard, on attend le podium... Alors que plein d'autres trucs en cours la la.

Ça me gave tellement les drapeaux et les animateurs qui s'écoutent parler.
February 8, 2026 at 2:43 PM
spendiac.bsky.social
Thanks Susan!

That represents many hours of British crime drama television. Have to keep my hands busy.
February 8, 2026 at 2:41 PM
lavozdegalicia-bot.bsky.social
El cómico Andrea Pucci renuncia a presentar el festival de San Remo por sus bromas homófobas y sobre mujeres

https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/television/2026/02/08/comico-andrea-pucci-renuncia-presentar-festival-san-remo-bromas-homofobas-sobre-mujeres/00031770558474878922283.htm
El cómico Andrea Pucci renuncia a presentar el festival de San Remo por sus bromas homófobas y sobre mujeres
«Los insultos, amenazas y epítetos que mi familia y yo hemos recibido en estos días son incomprensibles e inaceptables», ha lamentado el artista en un comunicado
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February 8, 2026 at 2:40 PM
chasingdobbie.bsky.social
I can’t wait for the day in which we no longer have to hear his voice grating on our ears every time we scroll or watch television.
February 8, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Popular US television news anchor Savannah Guthrie posted an Instagram video on Saturday, alongside her siblings, offering to pay for the return of their mother.

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Savannah Guthrie willing to pay for mother's return | The Jerusalem Post
“We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us,” said news anchor Savannah Guthrie.
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February 8, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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In a still from the second series of television show "Slings And Arrows" Richard Smith-Jones (played by Mark McKinney) and Sanjay (played by Colm Feore) embrace and scream; Sanjay is a marketing consultant who predicts his bizarre advertising campaign will produce a "youthquake". I won't say more about the show because spoilers (after 20 years) but it's a great show and can be found on YouTube.
February 8, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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138 After establishing some part of Snowden’s “material” was still in his possession, Shevardnadze asked the next logical question: “Why did Russia get involved in this whole thing if it got nothing out of?” In response, Kucherena elliptically hinted that the unreleased material contained CIA secret files. “Snowden spent quite a few years working for the CIA.” He said. "We haven’t fully realized yet the importance of his revelations.” (He was correct that Snowden had stolen a larger number of CIA documents that he had not turned over to journalists, as CIA deputy director Morell confirmed.) Whatever this material might reveal, the FSB was presumably aware of its existence. After all, Kucherena was on the FSB’s public oversight board. If he had kept Snowden’s possessions of these documents secret from the FSB, he would not have divulged it in an interview on television. Kucherena’s answer left little ambiguity to the critical question about the fate of the NSA’s missing documents: Snowden had not destroyed the electronic files of NSA documents that he had not distributed to journalists. He still had them, when Kucherena had reviewed his files in Russia. Kucherena’s disclosure that Snowden retained these crucial documents did not contradict Snowden’s own story at the time of the Shevardnadze interview. Indeed, it was completely consistent with the statement Snowden made three weeks after arriving in Russia in his previously- mentioned email to Senator Humphrey. Snowden subsequently changed his story. In mid-October, Snowden electronically-informed journalists that he had destroyed all the NSA documents in his possession before flying to Moscow. So his new story radically contradicted what his own lawyer had said the previous month on television. To be sure, Kucherena who later confirmed the accuracy of the Shevardnadze interview to me in Moscow in 2015 may have meant to say that Snowden only had access to the NSA documents rather than having the physical files
February 8, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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137 An answer came three months later from his Moscow lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena. On September 23, 2013, Kucherena had an extensive interviewed on the state owned RT channel. The interviewer Sophie Shevardnadze, who had a show on RT Television, called “Sophie & Co,” was well-admired journalist in her own right. She is also the grand-daughter of Edward Shevardnadze, a former foreign minister and Politburo member of the Soviet Union and, after the Soviet Union broke up, the first president of Georgia. Even though she had interviewed many top political figures in Russia, obtaining an hour-long interview with Kucherena was a coup since, up until then, he had not discussed the subject in Snowden in a television interview. About half-way through the interview, she brought up a highly-sensitive subject of the disposition of the NSA documents. She directly asked Kucherena if Snowden given all the documents he had taken from the NSA to journalists in Hong Kong. If anyone was in a position to know about these documents, it was Kucherena. He had acted as an intermediary for Snowden in his negotiations with Russian authorities, including the FSB. As such, he would be privy to the status of the secret material that was of immense concern to the Russian intelligence services. When I interviewed Kucherena in Moscow in 2015, he told me that “all the reports” concerning Snowden had been turned over to him by “Russian authorities” in July 2013. “I had all of Snowden’s statements,” he said. If so, he presumably knew what Snowden had told the Russian security services prior Had Snowden come to Russia with empty hands or bearing gifts? Kucherena answered her question without any evasion. He said that Snowden had only given “some” of the NSA’s documents in his possession to journalists in Hong Kong. He had kept the remaining documents in his possession. That confirmed what Snowden had told Greenwald. Poitras and Lam in Hong Kong. Snowden told them that he had divided the stolen NSA
February 8, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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its only fair. happy bday to one of the greatest albums of all time.

#Television #PostPunk #AltRock #Music #MusicSky
February 8, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Stone’s “Snowden” movie, for the rights to his not completed novel called “Time of the Octopus,” a story based on his story of Snowden’s stay at the airport. It would strain credibility that such privileges would be awarded to an intelligence defector who had refused to cooperate with Russian authorities. In Snowden’s case, he was even allowed to participate in a Putin’s telethon on state-controlled television. On it, he was called on to ask Putin if the Russian government violated the privacy of Russian citizens in the same way that the American government violated rights of its citizens. Putin, smiling at Snowden’s presumably vetted question, answered in a single word: “No.” In the Moscow scenario, Snowden received sanctuary, support, perks and high-level treatment by Putin himself because he agreed to cooperate. If Snowden had not paid the price of admission, either in Russia or before his arrival, he would not have been accorded this privileged status. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020285
February 8, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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133 entirely in the hands of Putin’s Russia. He would also have to be fully candid with the Russian authorities about what was of great value to Putin: the secret documents he had acquired. Two days later, Snowden made his first public appearance in Russia. It had been, like previous press conferences with US defectors to Russia, carefully managed, First, Snowden arrived by limousine at the international transit lounge of Sheremetyevo airport. He was seated at a table with Harrison. As Snowden spoke no Russian, a Russian translator was provided. The small audience included hand-picked Russian officials, including some Putin’s close associates. They were ushered through passport control by security men to the otherwise cordoned-off lounge. The cameras for RT television and other Russian channels were already in place. When everyone had taken their seats, Snowden announced in a quiet voice that was seeking asylum in Russia. Ten minutes later, Snowden and Harrison were escorted back to the limousine which drove off to an unannounced destination. Snowden received Russian identification papers on August 1, 2013 that allowed him to resettle in Moscow. Not only was he provided with a residence but he was allowed to set up in it a broadcasting studio that could be used for Internet appearance at well-attended events around the world, such as South by Southwest, TED, and other Internet conferences. Snowden was, according to Kucherena, was also furnished with bodyguards. To help earn his keep, he was employed at an unidentified Moscow cyber-security firm. To complete his resettlement, Lindsay Mills, whom he had left behind in Hawaii, was given a 3-month visa and was allowed to temporarily live with him in Moscow. This afforded him a life style which Snowden described in an interview as “great.” Kucherena, although he was acting without compensation from Snowden, later received the stunning sum of one million dollars from Open Road Films, the distributor for Oliver
February 8, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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I realise it is not a viable business (licencing) model for you to stream online, but it is a shame some of your content is broadcast only. I never use the television, these days.
February 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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R.I.P. : FRED SMITH (Television)
Fred Smith, componente della formazione originale dei Blondie e noto soprattutto per il ruolo di bassista nei TELEVISION, dove prese il posto di Richard Hell, è morto venerdì scorso a 77 anni dopo una lunga malattia.
February 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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It's #HourlyComicDay! I'll be updating this thread throughout the day, but I'm doing them on the iPad this year so who knows how it'll go. It might take me longer to finish, I'm bad at procreate somehow?
🎨 #HCD2026 #comicoop #Dimension20

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Single panel comic for hourly comic day 2026. 12am. apricot is sitting in an arm chair with the legs up, a silly fluffy cat sitting next to them and another cat creeping behind the chair. The caption reads: "We're so close to finishing Fantasy High season 3... I don't like most actual plays, but I was convinced to give D20 a try by that season 2 Baron animation." Off screen, presumably coming from the television, someone is saying "Blimey!" in reference to a specific scene with Ally Beardsley. apricot is quietly saying "nooo K2"
February 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Television
February 8, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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Fred Smith, bassist for Television and a foundational voice of New York’s punk era, has died at 77. His melodic, understated playing helped define "Marquee Moon" and generations of post-punk bassists. www.notreble.com/buzz/2026/02...
Television Bassist Fred Smith Dies at 77
February 8, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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but exhausted his bank account. Aside from money that dribbled in from Poitras’ five- month old Freedom of the Press Foundation, the only visible source of funds for Wikileaks was the previously-mentioned payments Assange received from RT Television. British intelligence officers who reportedly subsequently examined Wikileaks’ bank finances in London found no transfers to the “Wikileaks team” in Hong Kong. While Harrison was organizing Snowden’s escape, she remained in the deep background. Meanwhile, mounting pressure was brought on the Hong Kong government to take action by the U.S. On June 16th, the U.S. government informed the Hong Kong authorities that it had filed a criminal complaint against Snowden and would be seeking his extradition. Since Hong Kong had a vigorously enforced extradition agreement with the United States, the Hong Kong authority would be expected by the US to take Snowden into custody. But Hong Kong was not entirely independent in national security issues. China had the final say in any extradition decision. In fact, China had explicitly been given the right of vetoing any extraditions for any reason in the formal 1999 agreement between Hong Kong and the U.S. Since its President had just met with President Obama in California, China also had an interest in avoiding embarrassing public demonstrations on behalf of Snowden. After he had held his press event, it wanted him out of Hong Kong. According to a well-placed official in Hong Kong, it told the Hong Kong Authority HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020259
February 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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February 8, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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period, Harrison also worked on a Wiki leak’s documentary entitled “Mediastan/” The film concerned Wikileaks’ exposure of US secret operations in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union. It was also a project which took her to Russia and provided her with a multi-entry Russian visa. In June 2012, after the extradition order was upheld, he jumped bail and fled to the Ecuador embassy in London. For the next year, his only visible means of income was a weekly program from the embassy. It was sponsored by RT Television, a Moscow-based English-language news channel funded by the Russian government, which would also finance and release “Mediastan.” Snowden telephoned Assange at his refuge at the Ecuador embassy on June 10, 2013. According to Assange, Snowden needed his help for his exit plan. He wanted Assange to use Wikileaks’ “resources” to get him out of Hong Kong. Assange considered it a surprising request since Snowden had not given any of the stolen documents to Wikileaks. In their discussion, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020257
February 8, 2026 at 2:27 PM