Posted on 03/30/2014 5:00:28 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
Damage to U.S. national security caused by NSA contractor Edward Snowden will take decades to repair, the White House official in charge of cyber security said Friday. Snowden’s treachery is especially grave because he exposed how all the parts fit together—the blueprints for how America’s most significant intelligence enterprise actually works—which is also the blueprint for how to defeat it,” she said.
“So what does this mean in real terms? It means that the president may not have the intelligence he needs to have for crucial decisions. Nor will the Congress. We may not see threats we should have seen, never mind opportunities. It means that there may be future attacks that we do not see coming, which otherwise might have been prevented,” Van Cleav said in an email.
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Let’s go to WWII. If I leaked information that told the U.S. “hey, the government’s spying on you!” and gave away the plans developed by the Manhattan Project, would I be a hero? Would I have “told the truth”?
You’re excusing 5% of a leak b/c it fits with your ideology and shrugging off the other 95% b/c it’s inconvenient to consider its ramifications. That’s not wise.
Am not a leader. I hold no elected office. I do not make the rules but if the rules made by the elected do not work I always get the blame and you too. Feel safer yet?
THESE msm rubes are not JUST compliant..they are fully engaged utterly committed sworn devotees!
I’m waiting for Snowden to release the thing that will have Ubama running for his life.
The Chinese had engineers working on the B2 when it was a black program. The Chinese had unrestricted access to sensitive DHS computer networks for 3 years. The Russians do the same thing.
All of this unclassified and has been reported in the newspapers.
I worked in classified stuff for 10 years. We never had unnamed sources going to the press.
That’s quite a non-answer.
He did Real Americans....as opposed to poseur “public servant” would be tyrants a real favor!
The would be tyrants can’t bear to think that ANYONE could get away with being so forthright.
Why are you ok with the feds collecting data on US Citizens while they at the same time label people like you and me as dangerous, while appeasing people who carried arms against America?
Our enemies know what we’re doing. Our friends may not have known what we were doing.
My apology ... am simply answering the way our so-called leaders answer. I've learned much from their non-answers.
——— the intelligence he needs to have for crucial decisions-—
He never makes crucial decisions. The repeated evidence is that when a decsion is required, he always dithers
That may well be Snowden’s closely held ace in thee hole.
The TRUMP card......to beat all politcal trump cards
THE REAL THREAT to buraq hussein obama’s future and “legacy”
Not releasing it may be whats kept him alive this long.
Then there's Hasan at Ft. Hood. Then there's that other creep in DC.
All of these folks should have been looked into. We were negligent in all cases and people died.
Then there's Benghazi.
Then there's all these countries that we got involved with...WHY??
his “politcal” decisions come down the real chain of command for Lil Val...Valerie Jarrett..and he takes golfing advice from at least three caddies.....
For certain the compliant media will not ask ... and the non-answer would be simply another non-answer from those in on the truth called leaders. Yes, ‘y’ is the question nobody asks. Good for you for asking.
I'm not OK with it at all. Nor am I OK with throwing open the floodgates and giving away everything we have so Obama can have a few embarrassing headlines.
Because the President and his supporters and “advisors” despise the Real United States Of America and wish it to be Fundamentally Transformed?
Hasan had the run of Ft Hood.
MRS CLINTON leaked what concerns this regime had about the folks sacrificed at Benghazi..
has she ever made a comment on Snowden or the NSA?
Its about more than Obama. Its about an out of control federal government. Election politicians, appointed officials, and govt employees are out of control and view Americans as the enemy.
THAT is what this is about.
he exposed classified material to those unauthorized to possess it, a crime. he exposed it to the KGB/GRU/FSB whomever. an even bigger crime.
he’s also guilty of being a miserable little weasel sellout by running off to our two main geopolitical rivals China and Russia.
he’s not a hero, he’s a little s$%t.
Snowden only gave away, thus far, a few little truths to the best of my knowledge. If people start dying in droves then I could agree with you. The other truth is obama and his minion all lie and there are dead. obama’s minions know they are liars but they simply have no common sense or that is what they want us to think. I fully well believe they know exactly what they are doing ... thus the general rule of thumb is to delay or resign like hillary and panetta. Then congress says ... We don’t tug on Superman’s or Superwoman’s cape. So forget about it, citizens. Many appear to be cut from the same cloth in the federal government but maybe that will change? I have to wonder for when reading of the Founders their words still ring true to the People today. Guess I’m a rebel forever and never a federal.
Is your name John Boehner? You sound just like him.
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