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Ex-NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden weighs in on Biden's classified docs scandal
TASS Russia ^ | 1/12/2023 | TASS

Posted on 01/12/2023 6:48:15 PM PST by Nextrush

Snowden noted that prior to Biden, others having been in illicit possession of secret docs include former US presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, as well as ex-CIA boss David Petraeus, hadn't been prosecuted

MOSCOW, January 12./TASS/.Former NSA (National Security Agency) whistleblower Edward Snowden said on Thursday that US President Joe Biden (during his tenure as vice-president) "absconded" with more-classified documents that many whistleblowers.

"Worth noting that the President seems to have absconded with more classified documents than many whistleblowers. For comparison, Reality Winner was sentenced to 5 YEARS for just one document," Smowden tweeted, commenting on the news that documents marked as classified had been found in Biden's namesake think tank...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democrathypocrisy; edwardsnowden; joebiden; realitywinner; russia; russian
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1 posted on 01/12/2023 6:48:15 PM PST by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

The whole Biden family are likely billionaires. It’s sickening.


2 posted on 01/12/2023 7:00:59 PM PST by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: Nextrush

I’m sure Obama will testify he declassified any materials in Biden’s possession. Same as with H.Clinton.


3 posted on 01/12/2023 7:01:11 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: Nextrush

“...more-classified documents that many whistleblowers.”

But not more-classified documents than Snowden himself took, I bet.


4 posted on 01/12/2023 7:03:55 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Nextrush
In thinking this situation over, I recalled a remark made by a conservative writer back then, probably in National Review magazine. This person had served in either the Reagan or Bush administration at a fairly low level, having been only recently out of college at the time.

He had described some of the hijinks he had witnessed or been a party to, after hours in the White House, on Air Force One, etc. He made reference to what he (IIRC) called "Washington's favorite game;" the name of this game was (again IIRC) "the rules don't apply to me." I believe another variant was "my name isn't mentioned in the regulation." Or law, rule, etc.

Having worked in government facilities before, I saw a little of this first hand.

Someone observes a person of senior rank (let's call him "X") do unthinkable thing "Y". Here "Y" can be anything — trivial and amusing, or very serious and potentially life-threatening — where "Y" is technically within the senior person "X's" scope of responsibility, but is outrageous or otherwise unbelievable.

Having witnessed the action of "X," sooner or later this low-ranking observer is in an unsupervised situation, and the opportunity to try out "Y" for himself arises.

This sort of thing really appeals to the kind of functional sociopaths that are attracted in large numbers to government service.

5 posted on 01/12/2023 7:05:41 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom

We human beings have faults and those in power are human beings for now at least.


6 posted on 01/12/2023 7:11:11 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

I have no doubt that several previous presidents in the last 60 years probably had secret and highly classified documents at their homes and offices I doubt this is anything new, but none of that makes it right


7 posted on 01/12/2023 7:23:36 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: griswold3

Then, why hasn’t he said so I don’t believe he’s going to make a statement like that. He wants Biden out.


8 posted on 01/12/2023 7:24:12 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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Obama will ride to the rescue when the time is right. But I am considering the notion that Biden’s days are numbered. “Progressives” ridding themselves of the senile old fool, but for whom?


9 posted on 01/12/2023 7:32:01 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: Captain Peter Blood

If someone starts a pool, I take 04/07/2023!


10 posted on 01/12/2023 7:32:09 PM PST by GOYAKLA
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11 posted on 01/12/2023 7:34:16 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: Nextrush
The Biden Crime Family .....The crimes just keep reappearing non stop. If not Brandon, then Hunter the Crackhead. Then brother James, the bag man.....


12 posted on 01/12/2023 7:42:38 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

But did they have the documents before they were President?


13 posted on 01/12/2023 7:44:14 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Steely Tom

All of DC is about maneuvering one’s career to where you “grab the brass ring” and become untouchable. I can’t wait until these people are deemed “golden pheasants”, which is what we called high value Nazis trying to flee, and they get the same.


14 posted on 01/12/2023 7:50:39 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim ( )
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To: caww

Truth


15 posted on 01/12/2023 7:51:23 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim ( )
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To: griswold3

Cant remember


16 posted on 01/12/2023 8:01:44 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

In totalitarian states, everything is a crime. something is only prosecuted when the act becomes political


17 posted on 01/12/2023 8:23:56 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Nextrush

Please let this be grounds for impeachment.


18 posted on 01/12/2023 9:24:48 PM PST by MarMema (Biden = Americans Last)
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To: MarMema

If it’s grounds for a multi-agency armed assault on an ex-President’s household, common sense would say that it’s grounds for impeachment.


19 posted on 01/12/2023 9:26:31 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: griswold3

The goal is to get Mr. Biden to resign “for reasons of health” and not seek a second term of office. They believe they can control Harris better. The year 2023 will be the year of three US Presidents.


20 posted on 01/12/2023 10:19:24 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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