Posted on 11/27/2013 10:24:35 AM PST by kobald
The fact that others may have accessed NSA secrets with motives less benevolent than Snowden’s (anything from actual foreign spies to crooks looking for insider info they can parley into illicit gain) is all the more reason the agency needs to be taken apart and rebuilt properly.
Asking someone to prove a negative is a sign of a weak case.
re: “Asking someone to prove a negative is a sign of a weak case.”
I didn’t ask the poster to “prove it”. I asked if he/she “knew for sure”, i.e. “beyond a reasonable doubt”, that Snowden did not release information damaging to our legitimate covert operations. I gave the poster opportunity to share information that possibly I did not have.
Snowden may be an absolute hero, but what bothers me is that people I personally know and trust, people who are good, conservative patriotic Americans are calling him a traitor - not because of his revelation of the NSA spying on Americans, but because of compromising agents, strategy, operational tactics, etc. of legitimate covert actions by our intelligence gathering ops.
It’s certainly possible that the people who are saying Snowden is a traitor are wrong, but again, the people that are saying this (whom I know personally) are people who are generally “in the know” of things.
What I’m asking for are news items, stories, etc. that indicate that legitimate covert ops were not revealed by Snowden - but, all I see are generalized opinions one way or the other.
I’m not trying to PROVE anything - I’m ASKING for information.
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