According to Booze Allen, he worked for them for 3 months, he states he likes Obama’s ideas and defected to China.
That tells me how F’d up this guy is so the left will love him.
How DID Snowden get such CLASSIFIED INFORMATION when he Barely got a GED??? And he’s so YOUNG.....something is VERY FISHY....VERY FISHY.
Our nation is dirty and too full of bad secrets. This guy exposed the rot. They will say bad things about him, but I ain't buying their lies.
If Snowden had completed a typical four year baccalaureate he would have been well conditioned to accept “the government is always good” premise from his professors.
As it was, his lack of formal schooling opened his eyes.
Snowdon claims he did not vote for Obama in 2008,he said he voted third party,he said he believed Obama’s promises but when he saw that he was not following through he did what he did.
As far as I am concerned you can’t look at this outside of the context of all the Government abuses we have witnessed recently,Fast and Furious,Bengahzi,IRS,Egypt,Quadaffi,in short this government Is out of control.
As for this spying on Americans,I find myself a Tea party member siding with two Lefty Democrats,Wyden of Oregon and Udall of Utah both of whom server on the Senate intelligence committee,they have been on this spying thing for quite some time,it seems the NSA while going through some of the phone numbers they had vacuumed up, someone entered one number wrong and accessed a Load of innocent Individuals information,this is illegal,they had to report this to Holder who notifies the FISA court who orders them to destroy all the data,Holder says he did and assures the court that he is taking comprehensive action to prevent this from happening. This action was taken because the judges on the FISA court were outraged at the breach,now I don’t trust Holder at all. The FISA court found during all this that a Top secret survelliance program that the government is running is unconstitutional,Udall and Wyden cannot reveal what program that was because they are on the intelligence committee committee and it is top secret,they notify the electronic freedom foundation,an organization This guy Snowden is on,they file a freedom of information request to the Justice dept. And Holder will not release the court judgement,they tell them to go to the FISA COURT,the court tells them to go to the Justice dept.They are getting the run around,they can’t get what survelliance program the FISA court has ruled is unconstitutional. Suppose Snowden knows with his access what program that was and it is what we have been hearing about,that makes him a whistle blower.
This issue has to be looked at in the context of trust of the government as well as all the rest and I join with the founding fathers on this one,I don’t trust the Government.
I look at it this way,Thousands of men landed at Normandy and knowing that they more than likely were going to die,thousands more climbed aboard bombers in the eighth air force for mission after mission,courage we only read about and most never have to summon,well fellow Americans regardless of Snowdens political bent,as he says,he was living in paradise,making a ton of money and he in effect has ended his life,that takes tremendous courage,in light of all that written here I am willing to at least listen to this man before all the howling sleazy politicians
No degree! Ged!
Voted for Dr Ron Paul!
Some damn good real Americans out there yet !!!!!
Semper Fidelis
Dick G
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I think one has an obligation to reveal secrets if they involve violation of the constitution. I don’t care what his level of education is and usually provided one has the necessary experience and the ability to get a clearance its not the primary concern. The truth is that security is only as good as the individuals you trust with it and the federal government is chock full of radical leftists so if people that hate America can get jobs at DHS and DOD then that pretty much leaves the gates open.
When I was working at DHS under CBP I over heard conversations expressing sentiments that attacking Texas with a nuke was more appealing than attacking Iraq. One individual who had clearances at DoD, CIA, FBI, NSA in a fairly high level meeting felt the need to express how Condoleezza Rica was not a nice person and that even her family hated her. It wasn’t surprising that he said something like that but that he felt entirely comfortable expressing that sentiment during the Bush admin in a meeting with higher management. I also don’t think I’ve ever seen more transsexuals working anywhere.
Don’t get me wrong. The majority of folks working there are great but never assume that because someone has a security clearance that they are patriotic Americans. Also security was such at the Kingstowne office that even with swipe access they had spent years trying to find out who was ‘vandalizing’ the mens restroom and still hadn’t figured it out.
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?
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.