More Snowden Drivel.

Today the editor of the Guardian 'Newspaper' is appearing in front of a UK House of Commons select committee to answer questions about information it was provided with by US National Security Agency (NSA) employee Edward Snowden. This has been billed very much as the UK government taking a tough line against those who jeopardise national security. This is of course all nonsense.

You may remember that shortly after I was arrested on that unfounded criminal damage allegation the US dispatched Snowden to Russia. Generally this was to exert pressure on Russia over Syria however it posed specific questions about whether I would skip police bail by attempting to seek asylum in a London Embassy. The fact that Katy Perry had already decided to name her album "Prism" by that point was just sort of the icing on the cake.

After I'd answered bail rather seeking asylum the Guardian newspaper arranged for David Miranda - the Brazilian partner of US journalist Glenn Greenwald - to be detained by UK police under anti-terrorism legislation. Apart from causing a lot of confusion the intention here was to promote discussion about an individuals legal rights whilst under police detention in the UK. Specifically it was to draw attention to the parts of the Police And Criminal Evidence (PACE) Act 1984 that the police had wilfully violated during my detention.

Despite all this Snowden documents are still being released and people are still reading them as if the NSA hadn't intended for them to be in the public domain. The latest round of these included a revelation that the NSA had been spying on Islamists Internet porn habits. This was a reference to the fact when I'm watching Internet porn it's more a case of loads of people watching me watching Internet porn. The timing of this revelation was intended to exert pressure on people in Muslim nations - specifically Egypt - by making them feel very uncomfortable about watching me watching porn.

Slightly more interesting was the revelation that Brazil had signed a multi-million dollar deal to launch a secure communications satellite. The Snowden leak forced the Brazilian government to confirm this. Obviously this all occurred around the time of the COP19/CMP9 where satellites and technology transfers are always hot topics. It was also intended to make Brazil's neighbours paranoid that it was becoming the regional military power.

The really interesting bit though was they way that the satellite is to be built and launched used technology sourced from a variety of different nations. This sounded a lot like the way the Abdul Qadeer Khan network tried to sell nuclear weapons around the globe in the 1980's. Therefore the intention was to make Argentina jealous that Brazil was being included in the Iran negotiations and insist on a Rihanna concert in an effort to find out what was going on.

(Originally Posted) 16:40 on 3/12/13 (UK date).