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?
Ummm...believing that Al Queda will just go away if we lessen surveillance is definitely naïve.
I am not a pie-in-the sky leftist.
I don't believe you are a leftist. But I do believe you are a pie in the sky type...one of the conservatives whom Putin has fooled.
Putin isn't on my street. FBI is.
I'll take my chances with Putin and the rag-heads. History shows I'm safer taking that risk than the risk of an out of control government.
Naive is believing that spying on American protects us from external threats.
When did you last deploy?
/johnny
Naïve people believe that their street is the center of the universe. Mature people see the larger picture...that both and Al Queda and Putin are actively plotting to take down all of America, not just your street.
the rag-heads. History shows I'm safer taking that risk
Ah, yes. The innocent ragheads. My, your naivete is showing more and more.
You honestly think there are no terrorists in the US and they are only externally based? Wow.
Quit spying on Americans. It's unconstitutional.
Your sophisticated nuance is killing freedom.
/johnny
You desire the terrorists to gain more power. I don't need any nuance to point out how unbalanced that view is.
Edward Snowden is a Communist traitor.
“Greetings” says conservatives on the Snowden bandwagon need to remember they’re “Americans”. Wasn’t Washington, Adams, Jefferson et al Americans?
That is a lie. I gave years of my life to fight terrorism to be libeled by armchair warriors like you?
You are disgusting.
/johnny
Obama gave a speech last week saying changes need to be made to data collection and storage.
Quite a coincidence to do it now.
Were Obama and Holder involved with Snowden?
You are in favor of a policy of lessening surveillance on the terrorists, saying you'll take your chances with them.
Every common sense person knows you can't "take a chance" with an enemy whose sole purpose for living is to kill Americans. What a ridiculous view. You have to do more than "take a chance". You have to do something about it.
I'm not sure who you think thwarted at least 40 attacks since 9/11 (according to the Heritage Foundation)? Yes, it was the Feds along with local law enforcement.
Yes, we want at little Gov't as possible. That being said, we also need a Gov't that's going to keep terrorists at bay. Do you really NOT want to listen in to find out what their planning?
Mature people also see that The Won, and the barbarians on the other end of his BlackBerry, with the help of the NSA, are plotting to take down all of Western Civilization.
Easy to bash...but no solutions given.
Listen to activity where one party to the discussion is reasonably suspected of terrorist activity.
Don’t “Listen to everyone, just in case someone does something wrong”, which is the current approach.
And then collect all data related to that party...all calls made within the last two years, etc. in order to catch not only the one party but the whole network. You can't do this if surveillance is curtailed.
Knowing the US can do this is keeping the terrorists at bay.
William A. Jacobson is Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School. Prof. Jacobson is a 1981 graduate of Hamilton College and a 1984 graduate of Harvard Law School. At Harvard he was Senior Editor of the Harvard International Law Journal and Director of Litigation for the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project.
Those in high places want to start a shouting match with Russia. So it will be the bible thumping Russians vs the Moslem Brotherhood controlled WhiteHouse?
Priests in every army unit, bibles in every hotel room and no love for Chechens - the Ruskies are turning to Christ and the US gives Surface to Air missiles via Benghazi to the antichrist. This can't end well. The CIA and more are whipping up Ukraine - why else would they think they would be better off in a dying Europe that serves only as a host body for Islamic pod people?
The passivity of the victims in this video reminds one of the video game generation in the US - Clueless as to why they are going to die young....
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2013/08/06/chechen-muslims-cannibalistic-slaughter-of-russian-soldiers-warning-graphic-images/
So if someone from Afghanistan or Chechnya calls Suspicious Person A in the US, and Suspicious Person A then misdials a phone number and gets me, the Feds should be allowed to monitor me “just in case”?
I don’t think so.
If Oswald accidentally called me in the week before the JFK assassination, I shouldn't expect the Feds to look into it?
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