Posted on 10/06/2020 12:29:43 PM PDT by RandFan
@TulsiGabbard
Brave whistleblowers exposing lies & illegal actions in our government must be protected.
Join me and urge Congress: Pass my bipartisan legislation (HRes1162, HRes1175, HR8452) calling for charges against @Snowden & Assange to be dropped & to reform the Espionage Act.
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Snowden was a disgruntled egomaniac who recklessly leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks. Many of these had nothing to do with the domestic surveillance program run by the NSA. He inspired other dangerous traitors like Reality Winner. Letting him off the hook sends the wrong signal.
Rules?
Snowden didn’t leak to Wikileaks.. He leaked to the Guardian newspaper (Glenn Greenwald)who sifted through them carefully as to not endanger anyone but to reveal spy programs that the DNI Clapper denied existed...
Maybe Assange can tell us what happened to Seth Rich.
Assange will never see the light of day. He’s crossed the Clintons, the FBI, the CIA and even the Russians, I believe.
I imagine Trump is doing a pure cost-benefit analysis to his own fortunes of an Assange release.
That isn’t entirely true. And even if it were, we can’t have a private citizen without a security clearance “sifting through” documents relating to national security.
He revealed illegal programs and by doing so put a stop to them.
He did a great public service
I have never understood the charges against Assange and agree they should be dropped. Snowden? He should be tracked down and executed. Okay, tried, convicted, and executed.
Assange will never see the light of day
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They want to put him a supermax prison for life with terrorists and murderers.
Can you believe this?
We can’t have individuals make their own decisions on that. No one believes it always works perfectly, but you have to implement some controls. Otherwise you have chaos. Snowden released information that allowed our adversaries to counter programs that are vital to our national security.
I’ll sign that memo...
All these actions are late by 3 years.
They weren’t vital they were flagrant breaches of the 4th Amendment and illegal and without Snowden you wouldn’t know about it because Clapper lied to Congress
10 million dollars, today, right-now, if you testify that Trump and Putin did it and refute all unclassified stuff coming out today... take it or leave it.
Absolutely everything you say is true.
However, the government keeping detailed tabs on us, is worse.
We have controls; they are called LAWS.
And when a government violates them, it should be brought into the light and exposed.
Vital programs you say? Great! If they were that vital, than Congress should have made them legal...which did not happen.
Sorry — our folks need to be smart enough to play the game with in the rules, or clever enough to get the rules changed (or work around them with out violating them), or so low key about violating them that it never discovered or if it is, can be demonstrated as an “isolated incident”. The NSA program was NOT any of those things.
Some WERE vital. Like I said, he divulged info unrelated to the domestic program. He acted recklessly. Go easy on him, then what stops the next low-level employee to also leak because he/she believes they are justified? Sure, maybe you throw the book at THEM, but then it’s too late.
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