Based on I’ve seen and read, this guy sounds like another Bradley Manning, at the very least disloyal to the terms of his secruity clearance and at the worst a man capable of treason.
In the interview he comes across as a gay backer of the Occupy movement, self-righteous and self-aggrandizing and holier-than-thou no matter who thou happens to be.
He says everything NSA is doing is wrong but then says it’s up to the people to determine what is wrong. He reminds me of those idiotic “choose civility” bumper stickers which eliminate your right to choose by doing it for you all at once.
All that said, I think the government has gone so far over the boundaries of the 4th amendment with this and other programs that I’m not sure there is any way back to constitutionality for us.
But my opinion would not of itself be a license to break the law or violate an oath. Snowden can best justify his action only by demonstrating there are victims out there. I don’t think he’s done that—yet.
Disloyal to his security clearance? In the face of gross disregard for the Constitutional system of government?
Good God, do you not realize how asinine that sounds?
I agree...he sounds like another Manning.
He has said if there is any kind of crisis, all the government would have to do is pull the switch. Any hunch that anyone had would be grounds for investigation of the person under suspicion and of everyone he knows.