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Amash: Snowden is a whistleblower
The Hill ^ | August 4, 2013 | Brendan Sasso

Posted on 08/04/2013 11:04:28 AM PDT by yoe

Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) said on Sunday that he believes National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden is a whistleblower, not a traitor.

"He may be doing things overseas that we would find problematic, that we would find dangerous," Amash said on Fox News Sunday. "But as far as Congress is concerned, sure he is a whistleblower. He told us what we need to know."

Amash explained that although members of the intelligence committees were informed of the details of the NSA's surveillance, most lawmakers were in the dark about the programs.

"Without his doing what he did, members of Congress would not really have known about it," the Republican lawmaker said.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: nsaleaks; snowden; traitor; whistleblower
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To: mylife
His dad sounded off on a a cable show I heard in passing as well. You know that family is followed IMO everywhere they go.
Russia has a small army of spook following Snowden seeing if the CIA tries to take him out to mostly try and find what Americans are in Russia IMO.

Blowgun at a thousand paces with a poision dart perhaps?
No matter who is in charge we are not about leaking info back to Russia.

61 posted on 08/04/2013 1:00:55 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: maggief

Maybe Rogers?


62 posted on 08/04/2013 1:04:42 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: carriage_hill

That is kind of excessive force, but then Stockton is broke, so someone has to pay the swat team. /s


63 posted on 08/04/2013 1:07:22 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: A CA Guy

I don’t know what his game is.


64 posted on 08/04/2013 1:16:50 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife
I don’t know what his game is.

IMO he decided he was a king in his brain for a short time and made a stupid deadly move.

65 posted on 08/04/2013 1:20:28 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: dirtboy
Thanks for bringing this up:

Congressman Sensenbrenner: “As the author of the Patriot Act, I am extremely troubled by the FBI’s interpretation of this legislation. While I believe the Patriot Act appropriately balanced national security concerns and civil rights, I have always worried about potential abuses. The Bureau’s broad application for phone records was made under the so-called business records provision of the Act. I do not believe the broadly drafted FISA order is consistent with the requirements of the Patriot Act. Seizing phone records of millions of innocent people is excessive and un-American.”

potential abuses...an understatement if ever there was one!

66 posted on 08/04/2013 1:21:39 PM PDT by yoe ("They Come To America" order it now: http://www.theycometoamerica.com/buy-dvd/)
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To: A CA Guy

I agree.


67 posted on 08/04/2013 1:23:37 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: yoe

We have some oversight here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Judiciary_Subcommittee_on_Crime,_Terrorism,_and_Homeland_Security


68 posted on 08/04/2013 1:26:30 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: yoe

They ought to do away with their whistleblower program. Snowden just proved it is worthless and dangerous!


69 posted on 08/04/2013 1:40:21 PM PDT by lu shissler (ecause)
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To: mylife

He’s easier to believe than Obama.


70 posted on 08/04/2013 1:43:17 PM PDT by lu shissler (ecause)
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To: mylife; dirtboy
> When they start dragging us away in dead of night for differences of opinion, then we have a problem IT IS WAY TOO LATE.

There, fixed it for you.

You go right ahead and wait for them to drag you away... [shakes head]...

71 posted on 08/04/2013 1:46:02 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: lu shissler

I don’t believe either of them.


72 posted on 08/04/2013 2:11:54 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Sheapdog

Maybe Obama and Valerie Jarrette will never be brought to justice but the true history of the Obama regime will eventually come out same as the true history of communist Russia and China came out....years afterwards


73 posted on 08/04/2013 2:26:09 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: mylife

The NSA is just another Federal jobs program. All the real useful intel gathering could be done smaller and cheaper. And William Binney (ex-NSA) has said so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_%28U.S._intelligence_official%29 All kinds of gov’t contractors love the NSA it has brought them millions and billions. The NSA is the the 3 stooges blowing billions on contractors and bureaucrat empire building, their first priority, security is not a serious concern.

Proof is what Edward Snowdon could steal from the NSA after working for a NSA contractor for a few months


74 posted on 08/04/2013 2:44:36 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: mylife

They are Uninformed when they are not presented information, such as with Benghazi. For goodness sakes, when paperwork was finally given on F&F, most of it was blacked out. Yet, you want to blame congress when they are being purposefully denied information. Youre not thinking too clear.


75 posted on 08/04/2013 2:45:11 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: maggief

That's interesting.....will be equally interesting if they ever publish who changed it.....if it's a Democrate we won't know....if it's a Republican it'll be the latest Snowden news for two weeks!!!!!.....But just to be "impartial" maybe this defines Snowden

76 posted on 08/04/2013 4:55:32 PM PDT by caww
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To: mylife
I Guarantee they are not listing to you talk to Aunt Mabel about your Christmas plans.

You can't guarantee that. They listen to three degrees of contact from sources of interest [if we can even believe that]. You and I could easily fall in that range.

77 posted on 08/04/2013 5:00:24 PM PDT by BfloGuy (Keynesians take the stand that the best way to sober up is more booze.)
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To: mylife
When they start dragging us away in dead of night for differences of opinion, then we have a problem.

You trust them much more than I do.
Thinking that anyone will know when that happens.
78 posted on 08/04/2013 5:01:42 PM PDT by novemberslady (Texas For President)
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To: mylife

Mylife....the question, among others, is why on earth ,since the guardian was who he “picked” to tell his story...and he knew it could mean his arrest...why didn’t he make his departure arrangements before AND GO THERE “before” the Guardian let the story out?

Unless the idea was to do it Assanges way... and make this a fund drive ‘story’ enough to refill the coffers of Wikileaks and put himself back in the spotlight.....because that is exactly how Assange has benefited from this.


79 posted on 08/04/2013 5:03:13 PM PDT by caww
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To: yoe

There are only a handful of commie countries left on this planet, and Snowden tried to run to just about all of them.


80 posted on 08/04/2013 5:30:35 PM PDT by frickin_frackin
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