You’re the terrorists.
FU NSA and the other alphabet agencies.
Nope, can't see my way clear to justify a Chicago mob run criminal enterprise. If you promise to sell tickets to their execution, I'd like to get on the waiting list.
I think many Americans are having great difficulty determining who the bad guys really are. I can’t say I blame them.
This is a huge growing problem.
The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer. Ships, motorcycles. With the circuits like freeways. I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see.
And then, one day... i got in.
The first thing to have done is to have granted Snowden immunity so that what he was holding back would not be distributed to America’s adversaries.
The second thing to have done is to have convened a federal commission to investigate how this monitoring of American citizens got so out of hand (don’t care about non-Americans as they are not covered by the Constitution’s Bill of Rights) and to come up with proposals for collecting intelligence data while preserving maxim liberties and rights to American citizens.
The third thing (to run concurrently with the second thing) to have done is to have rounded up all those who were caught up in subverting the US Constitution and put them on trial while allowing certain unclassified portions of the trial to be broadcast internationally. The broadcast would showcase how America deals with those who violate its citizens rights. Such a display would set an example for the rest of the world to follow.
Of course Snowden would have been compelled to turn over all that he had that had not yet been published or somehow disclosed. So the damage to national security could have been minimized. Instead the US government scared Snowden into running away.
Pure bull, Snowden had nothing to give Russia or China they didn’t already know.
The agent of Vladimir Putin is in the WH. Snowden exposed NSA and other agencies who see and treat all Americans as enemies of the state.
Special case if you can’t tell the enemy from within from the enemy from without.
I believe Obama has done more to hurt this country than Snowden, seeings how Snowden is a creature of Obama’s administration.
I think this guy believes it. I also think Snowden deserves a full pardon and the Medal of Freedom. As for going to Russia and China, if I thought the CIA wanted me dead, any port in a storm. As I recall Ecuador was his first choice.
Which is precisely why Snowden has value providing intelligence-derived aid to countries like Russia and China - who stand to benefit from his information. Not only do those countries receive someone with secrets from their enemy(the United States), they also have someone that can advise and provide PR cover (via him and his helpers with the Guardian).
What Snowden and his supporters release to the public can be considered disinformation due to his lack of trustworthiness to keep a promise of secrecy. What they do should not be allowed to go unchecked or without trial, despite the current administration’s silent approval (since it helps other countries remove the US’s lead in intelligence-related activities).
If there’s any appropriate party/parties to issue awards, medals, “pardons”, or other forms of recognition towards Snowden and his fellow travellers at the Guardian, it would solely be the Russians and/or the Chinese. Any awards from the US are reserved solely for those that bring Snowden’s acts to an end.
NSA = the terrorists within