Posted on 10/01/2022 10:50:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
So they “trapped” him in Russia. They could of trapped him in Cuba. They had a better chance of extradition from Russia than Cuba. A fugitive getting his passport suspended is common so this is a semantic word game for sympathy.
Clapper didn’t merely escape perjury charges, termination or a shameful resignation — CNN actually put him on the payroll as a “national security analyst,” giving him a pulpit from which to continue spewing all manner of falsehoods on behalf of the national security establishment, on everything from Russiagate to Hunter Biden’s laptop.
No one dragged him kicking and screaming into planes. He chose to first fly to China and from there to Russia.
He stole over million secret documents and gave these to China and Russia because he is a traitorous SOB.
It just gets more confusin’ every day!
Snowden’s not trapped anywhere. He can come home to the US any time he likes.
A fugitive of what?
The man let the American people know that the government was spying on them, for any reason.
The man should have received a medal.
But, but, but he’s a traitor.
I think he also dreamed of becoming a national Political Hero before the obvious reality of Treason settled in.
I was not pleased with Snowden given the initial reports. But I eventually had reservations about condemning the guy. My ultimate position concerned safe return and Congressional hearings.
Given the varying FReeper reports and opinions over the following years, I began to suspect his intentions were Constitutionally sound.
We have an interesting pool of intelligence here at FR — intelligence in the sense of data gathering and analysis. Assuming a high percentage of honest players, we manage to grind through the details pretty much exploring the realistic possibilities without individual reservations (although frequently contentious). In a way, FR is an undisciplined thinktank.
>I think he also dreamed of becoming a national Political Hero
He certainly imagined himself becoming a jet-setting International Man of Mystery cashing in speaking at conferences admired by all.
That is why he falsely claimed to be a Special Forces candidate, whose career was cut short by injury, while in reality he just enlisted and washed out in two months. He also refers to himself as a “former CIA agent”, when he was really an office software support person.
He stole 1.7 million documents so he certainly couldn’t have known what is in there. He made explosive claims of abuse, but the explosive ones are the ones he doesn’t have evidence for (and we already know he is a liar). Those he showed evidence for were pretty milquetoast.
We see you.
Snowden could have flown to Ecuador BEFORE he flew to Hong Kong. In fact, journalist Glenn Greenwald has lived right next door to Ecuador, in Brazil, for two decades.
Fact - at that point in time, Snowden had no idea if Ecuador would give him asylum or not.
Julian Assange got temporary asylum in the Ecuador London Embassy because Assange was in the politically sensitive secret information business.
All Snowden had to sell was CIA and NSA spy craft.
Snowden's "information" was nothing more than billions of completely useless emails and phone conversations.
Snowden should have gotten a medal
Lets be rather blunt about the 1.7-million ‘documents’. At best, he might have read half of 1-percent of them and could assign a value of worth to them. The rest are all unknowns.
He’s one of these individuals (like Reality Winner) who came into the US military or the NSA in the past 20 years and felt they could ‘save’ the world. Amongst their various talents (or lack of talents), they felt they could correct corruption or ‘evil’.
And exposing Clapper's felony perjury.
Which, in the turd-world American Jesters System, means nothing.
If it’s not too G14 Classified, can you share some supporting information regarding the “1,700,000 documents’ he stole?
IE…..where did you get that number?
On Nov. 20, 2004, Poitras was in Baghdad filming “My Country, My Country.” The film depicts Iraqi elections from the perspective of an Iraqi doctor, who criticized the U.S. occupation yet hoped democracy would take root in his homeland.
Members of a U.S. Army National Guard unit from Oregon reported seeing a “white female” holding a camera on a rooftop just before they were attacked. David Roustum, 22, an Army National Guardsman from West Seneca, New York, was killed. Several troops were wounded. Some guardsmen who saw Poitras suspected she had a heads-up about the attack and didn’t share that information with American forces because she wanted to film it. If true, Poitras would have broken U.S. criminal law.”
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