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Edward Snowden: How One Patriotic American Exposed NSA Surveillance
Ammo.com ^ | 6/21/2021 | Sam Jacobs

Posted on 06/20/2021 10:53:35 PM PDT by ammodotcom

“I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, Internet freedom, and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building... the NSA specifically targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default... they are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them.” –Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden might not yet be a historical figure, but he certainly is a hero. He is the whistleblower of all whistleblowers, the American who blew the lid off of Washington's spying on private citizens. But Snowden’s leak revealed that it’s not just the U.S. government that is spying on virtually every American – big American telecommunications companies are also helping them to spy as well.

Snowden’s upbringing is largely uneventful. His maternal grandfather was a Coast Guard rear admiral and his father was also an officer in the Coast Guard. His mother was a U.S. District Court clerk. His parents divorced around the time that he would have graduated high school in 2001, but Snowden is a high school dropout. After a nine-month absence due to mononucleosis, he simply took the GED exam and then began taking community college classes. Despite a lack of a bachelor’s degree, he worked at a master’s online from the University of Liverpool.

(Excerpt) Read more at ammo.com ...


TOPICS: Government; History
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; nsa; snowden
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1 posted on 06/20/2021 10:53:35 PM PDT by ammodotcom
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To: ammodotcom

Unless he was a Russian or Chinese asset all along.


2 posted on 06/20/2021 11:11:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: ammodotcom; null and void; bagster

[big American telecommunications companies are also helping]

Somebody long ago, maybe 2002-2003 told me this (way back then). This person was in a position to know, as well (telecom employee).

Of course, that’s about the worst-kept secret for a long time.


3 posted on 06/20/2021 11:31:25 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord and Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
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To: SaveFerris

History lessons on telecom and how we got here [gov spying on all citizens]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3032748/posts

By: Vendome


4 posted on 06/20/2021 11:56:07 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Vendome

I’ll have to read that some time.

IMHO, 09/11/2001 changed everything. I think they believed they were woefully-uninformed.

Again, that’s just IMHO.


5 posted on 06/21/2021 12:01:23 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord and Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
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To: ammodotcom

Snowden was no patriot. He was a honey trapped IDIOT/TOOL. A true “patriot” would never, ever have acted the way he did.


6 posted on 06/21/2021 2:34:21 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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"He then worked for Dell starting in 2009, as an NSA subcontractor, ... His time there mainly involved training employees on how to protect data from Chinese hackers."

So the first place he flies with his horde of stolen secrets is HONG KONG. Let that sink in long and hard. The damage he did to the US is incalculable. The scumbag should be twisting at the end of a rope.

7 posted on 06/21/2021 2:41:42 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: BiglyCommentary

Right. FR has posts in the many, many hundreds regarding this traitor and still his odor returns to fool remaining FR viewers who are uninformed.

The big picture is in the clash between CIA and NSA.

The Patriot Act allowed the CIA to take control of FBI HQ and spy on Americans. John Brennan was behind the scenes pulling the strings on loners like Snowden.

Unfortunately for the CIA, the NSA had far surpassed the CIA in technological development and surveillance.

The CIA was rendered obsolete similar in history as the Pinkertons.

Snowden was piped from CIA into Booz-Allen (a spook body shop) to be dressed as an intel contractor taken up by NSA.

Snowden’s mission was to steal NSA tools for the globalist rogue CIA.


8 posted on 06/21/2021 3:48:41 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: nickcarraway

snowden was a Chinese asset - he fled to China where he was debriefed after tuning over all NSA’s collection Means and Methods which resulted in the murders of all Chinese US assets in China - this will come out or should come out with the information Chinese spy Dong gave the DIA.

At that point the Chinese had no use for him and were about to deport him, when the Russians stepped in and Eddy fled to Russia giving them all the same data form NSA. The Data was then disseminated to AQ, NK, and Iran.

How many US assets were murdered is unknown, but in China alone the number is in the hundreds.

The Methods and Means of collection cost billions to develop and now thanks to Eddie’s courageous actions have cost billions more to recreate where that was even possible.

A very patriotic fellow, a national hero. So say many people because he exposed NSA’s data collection of US phones - not knowing that this bit of information has been public information since the 1970s available in pubic libraries. For exposing what is already know via the Media who knowingly suppressed the very real damage done while boosting already public information as something new and shocking, Eddie Snowjob was elevated to near sainthood in some circles.

A very patriotic fellow, a national hero. It just depends which country one lives in ...


9 posted on 06/21/2021 3:49:53 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: BiglyCommentary
Snowden was no patriot. He was a honey trapped IDIOT/TOOL. A true “patriot” would never, ever have acted the way he did.

Snowden, employed as a CIA asset, was sent on loan to the NSA, where he was tasked with taking down the CIA's rival, the NSA.

Ask me how I know this. Bet you can guess.

This is no patriot.


10 posted on 06/21/2021 3:58:25 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Hostage
#HostageKnows


11 posted on 06/21/2021 3:59:54 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: ammodotcom

I am glad he did what he because IMO the NSA and the CIA are corrupt beyond redemption...


12 posted on 06/21/2021 4:01:15 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: PIF; Hostage
How many US assets were murdered is unknown, but in China alone the number is in the hundreds.

They missed Dong. Of course his status as high level intelligence was partially responsible for that. He would have been a hunter, not a hunted. And he was likely a Q asset in place for a very long time, not just 'the past couple of months' suddenly 'defected' out of the blue.

He was 'extracted' when it was deemed appropriate. Q (military intelligence) gave up a very important asset by extracting him.

Think about what that means. Either the walls were closing in, or....part of THE PLAN. Amirite?


13 posted on 06/21/2021 4:09:49 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: ammodotcom

History will vindicate Snowden.


14 posted on 06/21/2021 4:09:52 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Stravinsky
History will vindicate Snowden.

It has....

15 posted on 06/21/2021 4:12:00 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: PIF
Eddie Snowjob was elevated to near sainthood in some circles.

Derp State circles.

#TheSilentWarContinues

#PatriotsKnow


16 posted on 06/21/2021 4:12:01 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: ammodotcom
his breaking point was seeing James Clapper, then Director of National Intelligence, lie to Congress under oath on March 15, 2013

There is some obscure law that permits intelligence bureaucrats to lie to Congress in the name of national security. If politicians call on them to testify in public, it's because they *want* them to lie, and the bureaucrats are more than willing to oblige.

17 posted on 06/21/2021 4:12:43 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: ammodotcom

I see the Qtards have shown up on this thread. They came early to this one which is a shame as a real discussion/debate on Snowden could be interesting.

Oh, well, maybe the next thread on this matter actual discussion will be able to take place. (There is no discussion possible with people who still cling to the Qult.)


18 posted on 06/21/2021 4:13:01 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: PIF
Eddie Snowjob

During his first Hong Kong interview he sniffles and swallows like someone does after taking a line of coke. His stripper girlfriend likely taught him some bad tricks.

19 posted on 06/21/2021 4:36:16 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: ammodotcom

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.


20 posted on 06/21/2021 5:04:15 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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