We're talking about the very same US Government and intel community that is this very day hip-deep in a coup attempt against our duly-elected President, aren't we? 
I struggle to have sympathy for seditionists.
Posted on 12/18/2019 4:56:02 AM PST by a little elbow grease
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden violated secrecy agreements with the U.S. government that allow it to claim proceeds from a memoir he published earlier this year, a judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady in Alexandria, Virginia, ruled that Snowden is liable for breach of contract with the government because he published “Permanent Record,” without submitting it for a pre-publication review, in violation agreements he signed with both the NSA and the Central Intelligence Agency.
In the book, Snowden explains how he viewed himself as a whistleblower by revealing details about the government’s mass collection of emails, phone calls and internet activity in the name of national security. Snowden was charged under the U.S. Espionage Act. He now lives in Russia in order to avoid arrest.
(snip) --- Brett Max Kaufman, an attorney with the ACLU’s Center for Democracy and lawyer for Snowden, said that the legal team disagrees with the ruling and is reviewing its options.
“It’s farfetched to believe that the government would have reviewed Mr. Snowden’s book or anything else he submitted in good faith,” Kaufman said in a statement. “For that reason, Mr. Snowden preferred to risk his future royalties than to subject his experiences to improper government censorship.” The federal government’s lawsuit didn’t attempt to limit the book’s distribution, but asked the judge to allow the government to collect all the proceeds from the book.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
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bad ruling.
What a coinkydink! That's what Snowden charged the US with!
Snowden was Paul Revere riding through town warning us all that the Gestapo was coming. Sadly nobody listened and now we see why we should have.
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In my 73 years I've had a geometric rate of increase in disrespect for our "intelligence community".
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Maybe I'm getting wiser or they are just getting "sloppier".
Eddy Snowjob continues to amaze the ignorant; everything he released which people squeal, about, saying he’s a great guy, was and had been in the public domain for decades. Just because no one bothered to look at the many articles and published books going back decades is no excuse for making a real traitor a hero.
He did incalculable damage to US national security by giving the product he stole to the Chinese via his Chinese handler, then to the Russian and then disseminated worldwide to N Korea, Iran and AQ. The number of people that were compromised and shot is in the dozens in China alone.
Paul Revere not, a Benedict Arnold with real blood on his hands, yes.
Snowden, a traitor for sure, wouldn’t inspire so many if the DS weren’t just as evil.
Seems like both can't be true.
The public released stuff was the distraction, the disinformation for media dissemination to the gullible and ignorant public. That took the spot light off the serious and unprecedented damage he did by staling Military and Intelligence gather methods and means both ELINT and HUMIT.
He did not “release” anything - he stole it. What was released see above was for the media. The US Government could not comment in detail lest they add to the damage.
By saying “He didn’t do anything important,” you are going up the wrong tree, which was what you were supposed to believe.
Everything he did was important both in the disinformation spread by the MSN and the theft of Methods and Means. Nothing in the Intel world is straight forward which is why it is confusing to people who never work in that field.
quelle surprise
We're talking about the very same US Government and intel community that is this very day hip-deep in a coup attempt against our duly-elected President, aren't we?
I struggle to have sympathy for seditionists.
Meanwhile every politician has a “bestseller” and gets big upfront payments for a book that never sells well.
This is different. Not an internal affair (deep state), but existential. Only a few at the very top are/were involved in the coup - do not take your anger out on the good patriotic men and women who are keeping us all safe; and this Eddie Snowjob Affair is about them not their bosses - they are the ones who pay the price in the field.
LOL. You mean all those good and patriotic men and women who exposed the nefarious actions of their bosses? HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Sorry, but your apologetics for the FBI and 'intelligence' community are not going to get quite the buy-in here that it might have just a few years ago. The left has long hated these agencies for their own reasons. Now the rest of us have reasons of our own. They've done a hell of a job destroying the support of the average person in this country. I think they deserve it. In spades.
Not talking about the FBI, but NSA. You obviously have no working knowledge of US intel agencies beyond what you were told by the MSN which is very little.
Too bad you do not understand what and how of intel, of which the FBI plays a very minor role - dealing mostly with domestic queries.
The subject of this part of the thread is foreign intel from which the FBI is excluded most of the time.
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