“what info has Snowden revealed...
that was not already widely suspected.?”
Oh probably all the nifty code words but not much else. All the countries do this stuff and they all know pretty much what the other guys are doing. There’s a reason that the pentagon doesn’t use Chinese routers for their networks and I would imagine that the same is true for most of the first world nations (third world nations really don’t have much of a choice).
The real damage Snowden did was not so much revealing secret spying methods but revealing just how good we were at it. The damage will be huge economically and you are already seeing it. Cisco sales have tanked world wide, Boeing lost an F-16 fighter contract in Brazil, the list goes on. I would imagine that every nation out there is making plans to move away from American products. The loss will be possibly in the trillions of dollars by the time all is said and done.
Cisco is busting ass and Boeing just made a record deal With Cathay Pacific.
Try again.
The Snowden worship bugs the Hell out of me.
“The damage will be huge economically and you are already seeing it.”
Yea, you violate someone’s trust and for some reason they don’t want a relationship with you...
Bingo. The people who initiated these programs are the ones responsible, not Snowden.