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To: wideawake
One day a so-called "conservative" supporter of Snowden will take a step back and rationally examine what Snowden has done.

Why don't YOU?? In detail.

And while you're at it, please explain why the 4A no longer applies, 2A is being targeted by Congress, the 1A is being kneecapped, Amnesty is being shoved down our throats as is "Gay" Marriage.

Thanks.

43 posted on 07/01/2013 8:57:13 AM PDT by USS Johnston (Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be bought at the price of chains & slavery? - Patrick Henry)
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To: USS Johnston
Why don't YOU?? In detail.

Let's see.

Snowden has revealed that private US companies are supplying metadata - metadata that tracks effectively all citizens - to the NSA, and which the NSA is then using for analysis.

Is this a violation of the 4th Amendment? This is highly debatable. We freely give our service providers information about ourselves. They freely repackage and sell this data to other companies. And now we learn they apparently offer it to the US government as well.

This is, arguably, the good that Snowden has done.

What else has he done?

He stole information from the US about intelligence programs that the US is running on Red China, Russia, EU countries and others.

He fled with this data to Red China.

He then provided a Red Chinese newspaper with independent confirmation of US hacking of China, a perfect propaganda victory for Red China.

Then he was allowed to leave Hong Kong - and do not imagine he was allowed to leave without China copying all of his data.

He then went to Russia, where you can be sure he was not allowed into the country without transferring all his data to the FSB.

At that point, he released more information about US intelligence operations in Europe, creating more damage for the US abroad.

Now he is threatening to blackmail the US with further disclosures unless he gets a free pass on the crimes of theft and espionage he has already committed.

His partner in all this is the anti-American Wikileaks organization.

Unless one is allowing President Obama to live rent-free in one's head, a normal person would have concluded by now that Snowden is a spy, in the employ of foreign powers, blackmailing his own country and embarrassing the US over a domestic surveillance program which may not even be illegal in order to cover his tracks and evade capture.

70 posted on 07/01/2013 9:28:12 AM PDT by wideawake
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