Posted on 07/01/2013 8:30:29 AM PDT by USS Johnston
Former President George W. Bush has weighed in on the Edward Snowden saga, telling CNN the former National Security Agency contractor threatened the security of U.S. citizens by leaking information about the surveillance program his administration created after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.
"I know he damaged the country," Bush said in an interview from Zambia, where he and his wife, Laura, are on a humanitarian mission. "The Obama administration will deal with it. I think he damaged the security of the country."
Like President Barack Obama, Bush deflected criticism of the spy program.
"I put the program in place to protect the country, and one of the certainties is civil liberties were guaranteed," Bush said in the interview...
Bush also refused to criticize his successor. "It doesn't do any good," he said. "It's a hard job. He has plenty on his agenda and it's difficult. [A] former president doesn't need to make it harder."
The White House said Obama will meet Bush on Tuesday in Tanzania...
He added: "You know, ultimately history will judge the decisions that I made. And I won't be around because it's going to take a while for the objective historians to show up. So I'm pretty comfortable with it. I did what I did."
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It’s all about control not Terrorism. Terrorism was just the excuse to put into place an elaborate spy system to spy and track US Citizens rather than anything else.
Eyes-Wide Shut.
MO: NAILED.
Any foes of the so-called "War on Terror" would indeed be named instead of referred to as a "Religion of Peace." Moreover, wouldn't and shpuldn't the southern border have been battened down tighter than a clam's *ss post 9/11??
I'm not sure why it can't be both.
illegal and unconstitutional
These terms mean something. There is a legal standard - not just "stuff USS Johnston doesn't like."
Snowden probably deserves a medal, then a blindfold, then a cigarette....
In that order....
Lets not forget that Jorge continued to damage Americas security by not shutting down the border before or after 9/11.Screw him.
QUOTED FOR ABSOLUTE AND UNDENYABLE TRUTH!!!!!
These terms mean something. There is a legal standard - not just "stuff USS Johnston doesn't like."
Indeed they DO mean something. But not to those who endorse the almighty Police State and rogue government who regard conservatives with utter disdain as "terrorists."
So....where do your loyalties lie? With the US Constitution, OR, with those who create technicalities and definitions that justify the trashing of the US Constitution and tenets of a Representative Government?
It is not.
It never has been."
Do you happen to own a Pawn Shop?
Thank you on both counts.
Count me in.
Bears repeating.
Many had warned that the Patriot Act would come back and bite us in the Moose-butt.
I'm not surprised.
That would require you to think your assertions through.
"Silence" was one way; willful ignorance another; undermining its traditional party platform and base of conservatives yet others.
The mission of the Vichy-GOP/E has obviously been not only to aid and abet Marxism, but to embolden Statist policies that purposely marginalize and ignore US Sovereignty and the Constitution. IOW, anything that helps the growing power and authority of Global Governance, subservience to the UN, and its New World Order.
I will the instant you meet the one simple requirement for getting on the Nut-Job Conspiracy Ping list, and not one microsecond sooner.
Sir, Madam — It may be your Constitutional right to defend the indefensible and a rogue government, but in NO way will I ever support your pro-Police State position, your misguided loyalties, or your “flexibility” of constitutional ethics.
The secret handshake??
Got it.
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Thank goodness we have these people looking out for us. Whatever would we do without them?
Creative and or particularly flowery or those containing exceptionally well phrased threats are especially appreciated.
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