Julian Assange: #Google ’Shit-bag’ and #NSA
▻http://cryptome.org/2013/08/assange-google-nsa.htm
Lisa Shields, the then girlfriend of Eric Schmidt, who does not formally work for the US State Department (...) was being used as a back channel for Hillary Clinton. This is illustrative. It shows that at this level of US society, as in other corporate states, it is all musical chairs.
That visit from Google while I was under house arrest [ voir ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/131933 ] was, as it turns out, an unofficial visit from the State Department. Just consider the people who accompanied Schmidt on that visit: his girlfriend Lisa Shields, Vice President for Communications at the CFR; Scott Malcolmson, former senior State Department advisor; and Jared Cohen, advisor to both Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice, a kind of Generation Y Kissinger figure — a noisy Quiet American as the author Graham Greene might have put it.