Posted on 06/15/2015 11:48:43 AM PDT by Mozilla
Well if he was a fraud he sure did have a lot if people bad mouthing and trying to chase him down for nothing then.
It is a decent article on the marginal character of Snowden. What amazed me about this guy is that he was a software engineer at best. He had no background....no indepth experience as an ethics professional....no intelligence background.....no concept over the relationships built in the intelligence process. But he wants to “fix” what is broke? A twenty-something guy wanting to tell me how to fix NSA? At that point, he lost his credible nature and whole point.
Adding to this....he wanted to assure me that he had the resources to protect all the secrets he stole....twenty-four hours a day....seven days a week....and it was all encrypted by his process. The Chinese and Russians have a thousand engineers at their disposal each.....who are as bright as Snowden or brighter....and likely given the task of breaking his encryption method....whether it takes days, weeks or months. Once he removed the data....he was simply baiting them to take him on and crack the code. He was foolish in believing he was better than everyone else.
“the Snowden Operation has smeared NSA and its partners with salacious charges of criminality and abuse.”
Raise your hand if you can’t believe the NSA is criminal and abusive? LOL!
Dude - If Europe REALLY knew what we were doing, we’d be kicked out of every country over there. That’s all I got to say.
He’s a traitor and i hope special forces puts a bullet in his head one day. And if his gal gets in the way, well, too bad.
I respect those who agree with what he did, as they are fellow FReepers, but I will never, ever consider him a hero.
Heroes for the US don’t live out their days in Russia. Russia does NOTHING for any American out of the goodness of their heart.
Which means the NSA is 100% correct in spying on Americans? What a crock.
No, it means Snowden does not, as in individual, have useful or relevant knowledge about the spying allegations in Germany outside the NSA docs he provided.
The size and scope of our spy agencies has grown out of control with the size and scope of our governments....all governments.
Rather than keep expanding our spying, perhaps we should be focusing on securing our data from the Russians and Chinese (two among the thousands who are trying to break our systems).
You first need to secure your defense before you go out on offense.
Intelligence is good, but today it is too broad and generalized. It should be like a precision missile strike, not like a shotgun.
Stated like a true jackboot licking statist. How can you NOT be happy with his revelations? I mean, honestly, what you are saying is that he should have kept his mouth shut about NSA spying, on Americans. Nice. Screw Americans. We don't have ANY need to know what our Government is doing. Or at least, so say the Snowden haters.
I’ve been called worse. Of course you know there were other ways he could have gone about making this known. And I am expecting the usual responses....”he did try” “who would listen”.
Doesn’t excuse treason. Have a good one!
I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few people who encouraged him to be a whistle-blower but who we'll never hear about because it was their job to encourage him.
His not going about it the way they expected him to or even outlined for him is no different than the good Muzzies in Afghanistan who fought the Soviets backing the Taliban rather than continuing to go after the USSR right away.
Yeah, I know, tin foil hat territory, but handing Libya over to Jihadists after Quack Daffy was being cooperative and helping to install the MB in Egypt were both tin foil hat territory at one time, too.
JMHo
Before Snowden was ever charged news of the NSA’s Secret Bulk Data Collecting had ‘already’ been exposed by Leslie Cauley at USA Today in May of 2006..... It’s not like it was a secret this was going on ..... Snowden simply contacted the Guardian and ‘they created the story’ and it went from there......
HE did nothing but put peoples in jepordy, not just here but in other countries as well.....
Snowden’s no hero...he simply wanted the press and got it.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm
I’m sure Snowden read every word of the millions of documents he stole before he ran off to be protected by Putin, who is helping him because he’s such a swell guy, and secret supporter of the American republic.
I would have some respect for the guy if he would stayed here and fought the good fight...but that would have required courage, a quality Snowden is a stranger to.
I assume the author, John Schindler, is the fomer NSA spook who “resigned” from the Naval War College after it was discovered he was sending photos of his genitalia to a woman not his wife?
Well if he was a fraud he sure did have a lot if people bad mouthing and trying to chase him down for nothing then.
That’s how Obama supporters believe regarding Obama.
“Courage” in the face of being assassinated is not courage, but stupidity.
Snowden is a NATIONAL HERO
Snowden is as real as Sandy Hoax. Both are conspiracies to FORWARD an agenda. Home grown, right here in DC among a small circle of Fascists seeking to overthrow America and its security apparatus.
A “national hero” who voluntarily moved to RUSSIA?
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