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.
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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.
Maybe Rogers?
That is kind of excessive force, but then Stockton is broke, so someone has to pay the swat team. /s
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.
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!
I agree.
We have some oversight here.
They ought to do away with their whistleblower program. Snowden just proved it is worthless and dangerous!
He’s easier to believe than Obama.
There, fixed it for you.
You go right ahead and wait for them to drag you away... [shakes head]...
I don’t believe either of them.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
There are only a handful of commie countries left on this planet, and Snowden tried to run to just about all of them.
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