True, but as someone more familiar with these issues than I am pointed out on a thread yesterday, the chance that he told China or Russia anything they didn’t already know, is pretty small. Hero or not, we do know however what he exposed, that nobody else had in all those years that these programs existed.
“[W]e do know however what he exposed....”
Exactly my point. Kudos, FRiend!
But I have to disagree with you one minor point: Deep down, we all knew this was happening in my humble opinion. Our rights have been under attack ever since the first progressiviks slithered out of the primordial ooze of failed European political theory.
Heck, if normal Americans were paying attention (as opposed to going to the Mall or obsessing over “American Idol”. . . ) Snowden’s ‘revelations’ were merely more confirmation of what’s been quietly known for a decade or more.
The program names may change, the tools may change, but the effort has been there for DECADES.
Google “ECHELON”, “CARNIVORE”, and “Total Information Awareness”. . .