zerohedge | Over the weekend, Dick Cheney emerged from his lair, and staunchly
defended the NSA surveillance programs that started under his tenure as
Vice President, telling Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday that the
programs could have stopped 9/11 had they been in effect. More to the
point, Cheney shared his view of Edward Snowden, whom he accused of
being a traitor and went so far as hinting that he could be a spy for China.
"I'm suspicious because he went to China. That's not a place where you
would ordinarily want to go if you are interested in freedom, liberty
and so forth," Cheney said, adding: "It raises questions whether or not he had that kind of connection before he did this."
The last statement finally generated an official response from China
whose Foreign Ministry on Monday, which had been silent for the past
week over all issues surrounding the whistleblower, denying Edward
Snowden was a Chinese spy and said the United States should give the
world an explanation regarding its international internet surveillance
programme.
