Our biggest problem in "calling" this is; we will never know the full accounting of what was leaked.
“In a statement to NBC, he lamented that an “elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it’s a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them.”
He makes a great point that they can’t refute. Snowden’s most heinous crime was that he exposed what OBAMA’S government was doing; all of the lefties who thought this was Evil George W’s modus operandi found out that the Kenyan Pirate was EVEN WORSE!
His peers would be people of great intellect, who were willing to risk their fortunes, freedom and lives to secure for the people the liberties and rights spelled out in the constitution.
People of such quality are a scarce type, an example of the type you will find below.
I’m of two minds on this guy, patriot or traitor.
If, when he spilled his guts, he had ratted out China and Russia as well, there would be a case for calling him a patriot.
But he chose to only indict Big Bad America.
Snowden did to the federal government just what McCarthy did to Hollywood: exposed them for what they are. That is why they are pissed. Just like in the fifties there were some weak denials but in both cases it was the truth that angered them.
The question is this:
http://20committee.com/2014/05/31/when-did-snowden-go-over-to-the-russians/ ?
and a timeline
http://3dblogger.typepad.com/wired_state/2014/05/how-snowden-came-to-work-with-the-russians-via-wikileaks-and-tor.html
I watched the Snowden-Williams interview and was struck by Snowden’s intellect and courage. This young man, with little formal education compared to the President of the United States, exhibited vastly superior understanding of the Constitution and a devotion to traditional American principles that left my heart pounding. Kerry says to Snowden, “Man up.” I say to John Kerry, “Shut up. Courage is not marrying rich women and pretending to be a war hero. Courage is risking everything for for what is good and right.”
A Washington insider outs a CIA station chief, and he gets a free pass. A Washington outsider outs criminal conduct, and the neocons jump on him.
Most of what Snowden leaked was low-level stuff indeed. A bit higher than crap, but not by much.
Hey Diane, what do you call your complicity in Clinton’s allowed leakage of nuclear weapon technology to the Red Chinese?
“The information (the Chinese obtained) included
classified information on seven warheads, including “every currently deployed
thermonuclear warhead in the U.S. ballistic missile arsenal;” on the neutron bomb;
and on “a number of” reentry vehicles of U.S. missiles. The PRC acquired
information on seven U.S. nuclear warheads, including the W88, the most advanced,
miniature U.S. nuclear warhead deployed on the Trident D-5 submarine-launched
ballistic missile (SLBM):
W88: deployed on the Trident D-5 SLBM
W87: deployed on the Peacekeeper ICBM
W78: deployed on the Minuteman III ICBM
W76: deployed on the Trident C-4 SLBM
W70: previously deployed on the Lance short-range ballistic missile (SRBM)
W62: deployed on the Minuteman III ICBM
W56: previously deployed on the Minuteman II ICBM”
Author attempting to sound reasonable about the fact she is a flaming liberal who is livid that Snowden let the rest of us be confirmed that government is not our friend
I wasn’t sure about Snowden, but if the Feinstein woman is against him he can’t be all wrong.
Imo he needs one to the head and another to the heart.