Posted on 04/21/2014 9:21:52 AM PDT by Randall_S
Imagine you were in the position of Snowden. As a contractor to the National Security Agency, you knew that your government was monitoring what seemed to be an indefensible amount of electronic communication, from emails, to phone calls, between ordinary Americans. What would you do? Perhaps you would:
Resign in protest? Go to the Press with declassified information? Point the Press in the right direction, to ask the right questions? Go public? Other whistleblowers in modern American history, such as Daniel Ellsberg, are today hailed as heroes. Help to start a national conversation about fundamental privacy rights, and the Constitutional provisions of the Fourth Amendment?
Maybe you’d do some or all of the above, among others thing. But would you ever consider fleeing to Russia via Hong Kong after leaking a tremendous amount of sensitive classified information to newspapers around the world? Most people consider such a course of action to be plainly treasonous.
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Simple. IF I actually had legitimate access to this information (and not just decided to go rummaging around where I wasn’t supposed to be) AND IF I felt that the threat to the citizen was sufficiently great I would have called Victoria Toensing and Joe De Genova
That’s the other one.
lol
You are so wrong wrong wrong. Call Joe De Genova and Victoria Toensing.... that’s what smart folks do.
Snowden is an outright commie. His entire ploy was to do damage.
Or you can do what Snowden did....do as much damage as possible and then run to both communist China and red Russia....classic
Manning is a traitor and Snowden is a traitor
Yes it is pretty pathetic WE have a Press that is such a joke!!!! He did
go to the press out if the country press of course!!!! WE are constantly
saying to each other here why are WE getting so much of our hard news
from the UK!!!! Sheryl Attkinson said PLAIN AND SIMPLE her managers
have no balls to stand up to the administration shaking in their boots over
threats to their FCC licenses!!!!
If the choice is flee of hope the SWAT team doesn’t kill you during your arrest and it’s not a kangaroo trial the right answer is ALWAYS flee. There’s nothing treasonous about trying to survive exposing your government’s wrong doing.
These “alternatives” are designed to dissuade future whistle-blowers from doing anything effective.
Who knew Bradley Manning was so driven to become the future winner of the Tanya Harding lookalike contest ?
LOL!
Everyone else who knew what Snowden knew but didn’t come forward is a traitor.
Such an act might be considered treason but being Tom Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Adams and George Washington were all considered guilty of treason for what they did back then I would wear that badge with honor.
I don't think it was Snowden's goal at all to do damage, even though that occurred. I think Snowden considers himself a patriot. And to some extent, he is.
Beyond that, you do have a point. Of all his options to out the NSA, Snowden picked the least courageous one.
And also gave information to China and Russia which placed our national security in danger. One does not forgive the other. Not in my book.
But there is a mean between staying here and taking everything with him to Russia. For example, he could have gone to India, where the extradition treaty specifically states that an offense which is political is not covered by the treaty.
Where else on the planet could he go and not be executed by drone withing a few hours or abducted and hauled off to some off the books dungeon and tortured? The total abandonment of the rule of law for the past 13 years has consequences.
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