Posted on 01/19/2014 4:50:07 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans
Gospodin Snowden Posted by William A. Jacobson Sunday, January 19, 2014 at 4:45pm
How did Edward Snowden so carefully thread the needle to download a massive trove of highly secret documents from across the NSA and intelligence networks without detection?
How did he know exactly which job to go after in Hawaii to give him that access, and how was his escape so neatly orchestrated that he ends up first in Chinese controlled Hong Kong with its difficult extradition rules, and then on to Vladimir Putin’s arms?
Because the Dems had erected a wall between intel agencies. If you can't share information , you're not going to stop an attack. The US Gov't wasn't allowed to dive into the laptop of the hijacker in FL to find incriminating info because there were privacy laws preventing it. That info would have stopped 9/11.
Americans are still dying.
Far, far fewer than if the terrorists had free reign to communicate with their sympathizers in the US. As I said, there has been no devastating attack since 9/11. That is largely due to potential terrorists believing they are being monitored.
We don’t seem to be able to HAVE our constitutional protections.
Obamacare is CLEARLY unconstitutional. As is the searching and seizing going on at the NSA. Obama brags about his executive orders. Another FR post just now was about the Feds trying to FORCE the states not to ask for ID from voters. Where are our rights?
Our Constitution doesn't provide rights. The Constitution LIMITS THE GOVERNMENT. That's all it does.
Rights come from God.
You should figure out that part.
/johnny
Boston was devastating. Even Benghazi is devastating, made the moreso because the actions of our state department and presidential administration make us wonder whose side they are even on.
“Obamacare is CLEARLY unconstitutional.”
What does anything I have said have to do with Obamacare? C’mon folks, think straight here.
It was a sick tragedy and crime, but it wasn't devastating to the entire country.
Post #46.
You can prove that Americans are having their rights abrogated by an over-reaching federal government.
I'll take my chances with the terrorists.
3000 dead isn't devastating. 6 million into ovens is.
/johnny
Snowden is in the same camp as Julian Assange. Both are commie traitors.
Putin is doing all he can to keep conservatives from seeing th
It was Communists that spied on their citizens, and foreigners...maybe you are the Communist here?
Snowden did America a service. And, he makes Obama squirm more than the GOP do...which probably upsets our Liberal posters here on FR
Heritage Foundation report on thwarted attacks:
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/09/40-terror-plots-foiled-since-9-11-combating-complacency-in-the-long-war-on-terror
Your comment is naïve. If terrorists know they are being monitored, they cannot communicate effectively and attacks are mitigated. Are you in the camp that thinks if we just treat Al Queda better, they won't attack? Nonsense. They will attack at every opportunity. Why give them a open door to communicate freely by lessening surveillance?
The people who are defending treason are the ones siding with the NSA.
That's the bottom line.
You and your kind have lost my support, and your crying terrorist wolf isn't working anymore.
The 20th century taught me that out of control governments are more dangerous than anything else in the world.
You don't have this cold warrior's support anymore. You broke that trust.
/johnny
Yeah by divulging our military secrets to Russia. What a hero!
LOL I didn't do anything but point out the obvious fact that we need to monitor terror activity in the US.
Your pie in the sky view is that we should allow the terrorists to communicate more freely because 9/11 was not devastating enough for you. Seems that you and Snowden (who seeks refuge only in communist countries) are the ones who cannot be trusted.
You can't stand the loss of support that spying on Americans will bring.
You can trust me to support and defend my freedom.
And I see the threat to my freedom from the federal government.
/johnny
Yep, Putin is doing a great job of convincing the naïve that he is harmless.
Meanwhile Snowden asked asylum of Venezeuala and was planning to fly thru Cuba. What a hero!
Cry wolf some more, but it won't help.
/johnny
Yep, just make sure here in the paradise of liberty that you don’t do any texting while sitting in a movie theater in front of a retired cop, or the long arm of Putin might get you.
Just another pie in the sky type like Obama who thinks Al Queda has been neutralized.
I lost a marriage over that, and much, much more. Some folks here on FR helped me navigate the paperwork required to get the waivers. Jim changed my screen name from KD5CTS.
In that 18 year gap in service, I was mainly a contractor for defense agencies doing electronic warfare.
I am not naive.
I am not a pie-in-the sky leftist.
I put my life where my mouth was.
Take your unconstitutional government loving elsewhere.
You won't sell any of it to me.
/johnny
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