Snowden is a hero
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SnowJob is anything but a hero - while the press played his fiddle, he gave the Chinese, then the Russians who in turn gave to the Iranians and AQ, all of NSA’s Methods and Means of collection as well as the names of the projects and people working in those countries (all now dead).
The information that appeared in public meta data etc had been in the public domain since the late 1980s. This is the ‘heroic’ information which anyone could find in any good public library - if anyone bothered to look.
When Snowjob fled the country, it was with his female Chinese handlers, and when he had outlived his usefulness to China, they give him the boot, so he fled to the Russian embassy.
What was stolen cost billions and lives to produce and more billions and lives to repair.
Some Hero. Right up there with Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen.
Snowden did not just provide general information—he provided great detail about how NSA spies on Americans (and the rest of the world).
I view him as a hero—because American citizens had a right to know about the many specific techniques used to spy on them.
Your argument amounts to
Its OK that Democrats and government have spit on the Constitution and weaponized high tech surviellance against Americans - ‘cause Russia! and China!
Fools believe that some foreign boogeyman is going to enslave us, when it actually will be our own fellow Americans, using all the powers of big government, who will do it.
Where have you been the last 8 years?