Snowden did good. The American intelligence apparatus that for decades was focused on external threats has turned 180 degrees and focused on he American people. Its beyond doubt that even this very thread is swept up and stored.
Add in the militarization of law enforcement, and the use of military intelligence to aid criminal prosecutions (NSA=DOD), the use of government agencies to harass and prosecute political opponents and you have a budding police state.
Support the NSA and its un-American, unconstitutional, activities if you want. I hope he has a happy life, with a beautiful woman. Thank god he made it somewhere to safety from his pursuers.
And we shouldn’t call the NSA the STASI. The real STASI never dreamed of having so much intel, they were pikers compared to the NSA.
He shouldn’t return until after serious, deep order change in the government of the USA. Until he sees people that ran this structure being arrested and prosecuted, he should stay safe and have some happiness.
Do not misunderstand me. I DO NOT SUPPORT THE NSA DOMESTIC SPYING PROGRAM. It scares me that they are mining data on all Americans. That should worry us all. If ALL Snowden did was reveal THAT program, I would have supported him. But he also revealed other nations we spy on, both friend and foe, and HOW we spy on them, causing damage on FOREIGN data gathering which is essential. Moreover, the damage and distrust it has caused in the minds of Americans fits nicely into the subversion and demoralization process the KGB started decades ago. While it’s healthy and ESSENTIAL to have a certain amount of distrust for our gov’t., it is not healthy to say...as I have read conservatives post...that Russia is a better place, and calling our own agencies the “stasi”.