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. Snowdens treachery is especially grave because he exposed how all the parts fit togetherthe blueprints for how Americas most significant intelligence enterprise actually workswhich 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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Even though the Russians gave them warnings on the Tsarnaev brothers.
barrys a tricky lil manchurian candidate aint he...
You make the mistake of believing that Obama is worried about Snowden.
How different the world looks when you understand that Snowden is Obama's guy, safely ensconced in Russia.
Exactly where he's supposed to be.
The whole thing was a ruse; the Russians have everything. Everything.
And we gave it to them in plain daylight.
You’re probably right.
I think people go mad when they hate the United States government so much they side with a traitor residing in Russia. They are not really conservatives as much as anti-government. They remind me of the misguided generation that saw noblesse in Stalin's Workers Paradise, unless of course they went there to live. Snowden lives there now. His allegiance is no longer to the United States.
You’d have to be an idiot to not think NSA was acquiring and keeping all information about and the content of electronic communications. You don’t build a million square foot building housing one large server/memory farm to save a couple of phone numbers and length of call or to/from email per electronic communication. Additionally, the collection is focused upon internal communications for domestic political and economic activities not foreign communications....the NSA and CIA have not given a single example of a terrorist attack prevented by their programs although multiple failures, in spite of their spying, are obvious and prevalent.
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.
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Like when the sirens were blaring and red lights flashing, people begging for help MONTHS before the Benghazi attack, and the fools in the White Hut dithered until the Al Queda types got tired and went home.
Why? Because you don't know what he took? I have an inkling of what he took and it's bad. Guess I'll just take your word for it, though.
If that was all Snowden had taken/revealed, then I'd agree with you. I don't even mind that he ran for it rather than "facing the music" like some people here said he should've done. However, he took a boatload more information than that, stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with domestic spying or feds-run-amok. That's my problem with him and this odd sense here at FR that Snowden's some sort of intel Robin Hood or something.
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