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Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance
GUARDIAN ^ | Sunday 9 June 2013 14.27 EDT | Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras in Hong Kong

Posted on 06/09/2013 11:41:17 AM PDT by sunmars

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To: EBH

Now if we could find out what really happened to Breitbart.


21 posted on 06/09/2013 11:56:03 AM PDT by struggle
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To: sunmars

Manning was a traitor.


22 posted on 06/09/2013 11:56:05 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: abb

I have a funny feeling this guy is smart enough to have put some other documents the Gov dont want released stashed away....i would hope he’d have the sense to have a bargaining chips.


23 posted on 06/09/2013 11:56:42 AM PDT by sunmars
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To: sunmars

The guy just shortened the distraction mileage the regime was going to get from this story. Now back to Benghazi and the IRS....


24 posted on 06/09/2013 11:57:23 AM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: sunmars

Wow. My new hero. I hope that there are more people out there like him. I know that my son who is in IT is really freaked out about this story. He’s been telling us for some time that its true.


25 posted on 06/09/2013 11:57:28 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: abb

How would they protect him?


26 posted on 06/09/2013 11:57:32 AM PDT by EBH (The government that sits in Washington, D.C. is not the United States government.)
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To: marron

so you think this whole NSA thing is just another DISTRACTION from the other scandals ,they already said the NSA broke no laws


27 posted on 06/09/2013 11:57:50 AM PDT by molson209
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To: sunmars

See right there is the problem. ..”this world that I love”...not this country that I love or its Constitution ..or even liberty.

What a mess.

Regardless - we are in his debt no matter his politics.


28 posted on 06/09/2013 11:58:00 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: sunmars

WOW! A big “hope and change” believer. Good for him.


29 posted on 06/09/2013 11:58:13 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: sunmars
Snowden will go down in history as one of America's most consequential whistleblowers, alongside Daniel Ellsberg and Bradley Manning.

If I were Snowden I wouldn't want to be named in the same sentence as Manning. Manning simply downloaded all of the classified data he could and gave it away. There was no challenged conscience for Manning. He was angry at the Army because he is a homosexual. He is going to prison.

Snowden will still get jammed up because of the way he divulged this information. He should have blown his whistle to the correct member of Congress. Not that there are more than 5 of those.

30 posted on 06/09/2013 11:59:22 AM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: sunmars

I’m guessing the Chi-Com’s will be excellent host to a former NSA employee who want’s to talk about his day’s on the job.


31 posted on 06/09/2013 11:59:29 AM PDT by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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To: sunmars

Well it helps him that he is a contractor and not a direct government employee.

I’ve said repeated that the RNC needs to start a whistleblower defense fund. I bet several people like Trump would contribute the first few million dollars.


32 posted on 06/09/2013 12:00:12 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: InterceptPoint

First, he said: “Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn’t feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone”. Secondly, the election of Barack Obama in 2008 gave him hope that there would be real reforms, rendering disclosures unnecessary.


33 posted on 06/09/2013 12:00:21 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: sunmars

Even though it has reverted to China I think the extradition treaty between the U.S and Hong Kong is still in effect. It is a weird case but I think is part of the British turnover and the Chineese desire to keep Bong Kong the financial and international center it was.


34 posted on 06/09/2013 12:00:23 PM PDT by airedale
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To: abb

Would he ever be free from certain retribution regardless?


35 posted on 06/09/2013 12:00:32 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Gene Eric
Manning is a whistleblower in the style of Benedict Arnold. Manning exposed no threat to freedom but did just the opposite.
36 posted on 06/09/2013 12:00:49 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: struggle

People are starting to realize, finally...the regime actually doesn’t care about the scandals or the hearings or any of the stuff we keep demanding.

He knows we won’t impeach him because we’d rather live with tyranny ....than with Biden... we are such fools!


37 posted on 06/09/2013 12:01:53 PM PDT by EBH (The government that sits in Washington, D.C. is not the United States government.)
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To: EBH

Maybe pass some sort of special legislation specific to him?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_bill


38 posted on 06/09/2013 12:02:51 PM PDT by abb
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To: sunmars

Even if Snowden is at variance from what we might regard as our cherished attitides and beliefs, I hope the US grants him immunity to expose abuses in the system


39 posted on 06/09/2013 12:03:18 PM PDT by CMB_polarization
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To: sunmars

He will be stoned in the Square, and if that doesn’t kill him, there will be a public beheading.


40 posted on 06/09/2013 12:03:24 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Obama is either clueless & should resign, or he knows what's going on & should be impeached. fb)
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