To: Strategerist; KirbDog; Starstruck
It's not gay or not gay. Neither is it uniform or no uniform.
It's about the information revealed.
Manning revealed massive amounts of general war-time information, that included information helpful to our enemies, and very little content that indicated inappropriate behavior by the military.
Snowden on the other hand is a mixed bag.
- Snowden revealed government spying on American citizens without a warrant, with very little oversight by a secretive court that only hears the government side. This represents an unconstitutional search and invasion of privacy. For revealing this, Snowden should be considered a hero and a defender of the average citizen.
- But Snowden unfortunately didn't stop there. He also revealed government spying on China and the EU including generalized techniques. That wasn't unconstitutional and revealing that is traitorous.
19 posted on
07/26/2013 12:42:26 PM PDT by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
>>Snowden on the other hand is a mixed bag.
Several bags actually - containing laptops that are presently within the purview of the KGB/GRU/Oprichniki alphabet soup.
Where did Super Genius Snowden go? He went Russia - where the Oligarchs once built a wall to keep their state-property contained, and where they listened to and recorded everything their property said, just like what comrade Snowden is whining about NSA doing.
Snowden is a monumentally ignorant Generation XBox dirt bag — just the kind of Useful Idiot product Yuri Bezmenov predicted.
20 posted on
07/26/2013 9:39:20 PM PDT by
TArcher
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