Posted on 06/10/2013 2:08:08 AM PDT by servo1969
We wonder, if Joseph Snowden is his real name ?
One easy way to tell that everything Edward Snowden says is true: the entire surveillance apparatus and propaganda machine of the UNited States government has now turned its guns on him.
By the time they’re done with this guy he’ll be painted as a gay pedophile neo-Nazi Morman anarcho-communist secret Muslim Constitutional-originalist radical.
They have one singular goal now: to make everyone hate him. Awful lot of effort on the Government’s part to take down a fraud.
From this point forward, any leaks about Snowden should be dismissed outright or at the very least filtered heavily in our minds through a prism of misinformation intended undermine his credibility.
Why is everybody so upset over NSA having personal data? We knew from day one that anything we put on the internet was the same as putting it in the newspaper. Why the big panic now?
Our Oath is always to the Constitution of the United States, not to the particular individuals in office. When the government turns against the Constitution, you are exactly right (your entire post, not just the line I quoted). This guy did the right thing. What he released clearly demonstrates that the government was systematically violating the 4th Amendment - a major violation that had to be stopped. He released information that protects our Constitution without in any way data collection programs that should be occurring, and I salute him for that.
but outsourcing has sooo many positive attributes...
OK, here’s the plan.
We, the right, are going to establish a tax exempt group called Progressives for a better America. We will make up “talking points and canned answers” for when the IRS comes asking what we are about. Once we get the tax exemption for being one of them, we will change our message to what we really wanted in the first place. We will have our president “make a donation” to the DNC - because somehow that always gets found out and published without a word of inquiry as to how that type of private thing is found. Better yet, we will have them make a donation to every single candidate and see which ones get reported in an article.
Then get the popcorn out and watch the mystery unravel.
Heh. Sad, isn’t it. We can’t trust either.
I think that AG Holder will be a beneficiary of this event. His collection of Fox reporter phone records will in the minds of many become tangled up with this case.
NSA / Constitution bump for later...
Isn’t it EDWARD Snowden??
Yes, I was mistaken to think it was Joeseph Snowden.
Because it doesn’t fit the narrative that people here want to see.
Parts of it were started under Bush. So it MUST be good to protect us from TERRORISTS!!
Or you are a traitor to question it!
Education: He did not complete high school. He told The Guardian that he studied computers at a community college and obtained a general equivalency degree.
GED and he’s been a spy all his adult life according to him? Right...
Military service: He spent four months in the Army reserves, from May to September 2004 as a special forces recruit to a 14-week training course, the Army said. “He did not complete any training or receive any awards,” an Army statement said. No other details were given, but Snowden told The Guardian he was discharged after breaking his legs in an accident.
My take: He couldn’t make the cut and was discharged.
Government work: His first job with the National Security Agency was as a security guard, and the next stop was an information-technology job with the CIA, which stationed him in Geneva in 2007, he claimed. He said he left the CIA in 2009 to work for private contractors, including Dell and Booz Allen. Through his job with Booz Allen, he was assigned to NSA offices in Japan and, more recently, Hawaii. Booz Allen said he has been an employee for about three months. He told reporters he made about $200,000 a year.
Security Guard at NSA.. IT guy at CIA.. this guy is low level at best and to state he was making $200k a year as an IT guy at Booze Allen is absurd and IT guys don’t get access to the type info he’s putting out so my guess here is he saw/heard or was told shxt he shouldn’t have been and then blurted everything out.
He didn’t vote Obama (supposedly) but did like his ideas.
If you can pass the GED test, you know more math than most hs seniors, you know how to read, and you know how to write a comprehensive essay. Do not put down the GED diploma when you are comparing it to today’s public education.
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