“but that doesn’t mean disregarding damage to our intelligence collecting is of no consequence either.”
As I see it, the damage is minimal. The terrorists already knew well before this that internet exchanges and wiretapping was taking place to try to track them down. What wasn’t known by the U.S. populace was that millions of those intercepts were of our citizenry itself, and being stored where at any time any lowlife in our current administration (or in future crooked ones) could mine it to be abused for political purposes. This is where Mr. Snowden comes in. He exposed to Americans that which they had no idea of, and to what an extent data mining was being done. I’m on the liberty and freedom side of this, you appear to have chosen the neo-con, hawk only, secrecy, RINO establishment side of this. To each their own.
I’m on the liberty and freedom side of this, you appear to have chosen the neo-con, hawk only, secrecy, RINO establishment side of this. To each their own.
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No. I’m on the “let’s be careful to not confuse what we are talking about”, and the “let’s not shoot ourselves because a nut across the street has a gun” side.