Posted on 07/01/2013 8:30:29 AM PDT by USS Johnston
Former President George W. Bush has weighed in on the Edward Snowden saga, telling CNN the former National Security Agency contractor threatened the security of U.S. citizens by leaking information about the surveillance program his administration created after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.
"I know he damaged the country," Bush said in an interview from Zambia, where he and his wife, Laura, are on a humanitarian mission. "The Obama administration will deal with it. I think he damaged the security of the country."
Like President Barack Obama, Bush deflected criticism of the spy program.
"I put the program in place to protect the country, and one of the certainties is civil liberties were guaranteed," Bush said in the interview...
Bush also refused to criticize his successor. "It doesn't do any good," he said. "It's a hard job. He has plenty on his agenda and it's difficult. [A] former president doesn't need to make it harder."
The White House said Obama will meet Bush on Tuesday in Tanzania...
He added: "You know, ultimately history will judge the decisions that I made. And I won't be around because it's going to take a while for the objective historians to show up. So I'm pretty comfortable with it. I did what I did."
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Nice rebuttal.
The ensuing response was...predictably weak.
Ooops.
And the "degree of detriment" is immaterial - and also special pleading.
The Rosenbergs were executed for passing on specs for bomb sights that were never deployed by either the US or Soviets.
Which meant (in YOUR mind) the so-called terms gave full consent to violation of our 4th Amendment Rights, violation of our privacy, and yielding to search and seizure?
Do you see ANYTHING unethical, immoral, and illegal about this reptilian subterfuge?
Are you comparing Snowden to the Rosenbergs?
As a courtesy, can you again provide the source of your link?
If anything, Snowden = Joe McCarthy in the scope of exposing cloaked corruption and .guv conspiracy against We The People.
According to whom? Those Police-Statists who are exposed as having supported the illegality of treating every American as a suspect of terrorism while harvesting every shred of private info possible?
This is fundamentally un-American and although redundant, un-constitutional.
I would welcome this case, this issue be addressed by the Supreme Court.
Are you saying that spying on innocent American civilians is a MILITARY secret?
Doesn’t that implicitly say that a state of war between the citizens and the government actually exists, or is being planned, or can reasonably be anticipated?
Extraordinary claim.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Show us all please?
As far as I am concerned Snowden is a hero. And I base that solely on your goddess, one Diane Feinstein calling him a traitor. Knowing what she stands for, her considering him a traitor makes him a hero in my book. next time you report to her, you can tell her your cover as a latest mole has been blown.
Wouldn't surprise me at all -- this is the same guy who proclaimed Islam a "Religion of Peace," walked hand-in-hand with the Saudi Royalty AND kissed the guy. GWB has been afflicted with several syndromes as far as I can see.
And then there's CIA Chief, John Brennan who DID convert.
I also don't understand any defense of a guy and admin which also allowed the subversive Trojan Horse commie-Kenyan clearance to become a candidate, then President.
There was NO redeeming accomplishments in the name of conservatism nor the preservation of our sovereignty during this NWO tool and Dem- proxy during his eight-year reign. He left us in the hands of The Devil himself.
Bad to have exposed the lawless and illegal behavior of the wannabe dictator in chief.
Isn't that the equation?:
Snowden exposes the illegal activity of a rogue Police State and its treasonous, tyrannical Dictator. Yet, Snowden = Evil "Traitor."
And yet still, Vichy GOP like McCain, Graham, Peter King, Thune, Cheney, Trump, O'Reilly, etal. rush to defend another back-breaker issue for 0blabla.
Happy when he attacked Afghanistan but was and still am not sure we weren’t getting jerked around in Iraq and finishing daddy’s mistake.
We were lied to. We've BEEN lied to. We haven't seen or heard truth, credibility and accountability since the Reagan years. Both Poppy and Son work for the NWO. The proof is where we are today.
Jorge handed the presidency to him on a silver platter.In my previous post I wrote N.O.W.,I meant N.W.O. Pardon the oncoming senior moment.
I knew what you meant :-)
Yep, there was NO excuse for GWB willfully and knowing allowing this satanic hater of America to become our President. "Nice guy"?? Yeah. He smiled and hugged us as he stabbed us in the back. Then he left, never to be heard from again. TILL NOW. Didn't understand the affection then and still don't.
I concur. Snowden is a serious traitor. How did FR come to be populated by antiAmerican supporters of a traitor so easily.
? Snowden is no Pollard trying to help an ally. He is trading classified info to harm this country with almost any nation in the world at the same time trying to save his own skin. Where does he go next if he cannot reach Venezuela ? Why are the so-called, self-named conservatives supporting him so inclined to support a traitor ? Is it just because of Obama, or are they inherently untrustworthy individuals who like to write on the Internet because their lives are unbalanced spiritually, emotionally, or otherwise ? I think most of them are libertarians and they hate the US govt so much they cheer other nations against us, even in war. It is the same posture liberal radicals take. t
There are interesting parallels among radicals and how quickly they can form alliances from diverse political groups
Now that he has fooled his opponents into supporting a traitorous thief who curries favor with every other anti-American regime on the planet, we see how stupid this attitude of emotionalism is.
Rational people would not make excuses for vile scum like Snowden - they would demand to know how the President allowed such a security breach to happen. They would call for an investigation into how a low-level contractor could steal so much sensitive information and flee undetected to Red China.
Instead they applaud the traitor.
The President tapped the phones and read the emails of journalists and critics without a warrant before we even heard the name of Snowden - yet now he is being hailed as a hero for revealing what we already knew was happening?
These people have lost the plot.
One day you will grow up and will be embarrassed by what you’ve written here.
Everyday that goes by since his presidency, I think less and less of him.
Now that he emerged out of his cocoon to support the trashing of both the US Constitution AND supporting Der Fuhrer's trashing of it, it's obvious GWB had been a subversive and traitor all along. He's actually more of a d*mned disgrace because we trusted him. He betrayed that trust and the nation.
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