Posted on 09/26/2022 9:57:16 AM PDT by VAFreedom
I am sympathetic to Snowden, but open to both sides of discussion. Did he go too far? Probably, but was there any other path? Is he a hero? Probably, but more needs to be disclosed. He probably had no other choice than to defect to Russia and maybe had few if any other real choices. Look what has happened to Assad.
I do remember the Snowden posters on the wall in the security offices of government buildings. They highlighted his alleged treason. They wanted him badly!
But what about whistleblowers? They really have no protection from the deep state unless they back the liberal agenda.
Q-kooks viewed Snowden as a black hat. But the source of much of their propaganda likely came from black-agencies. Snowden was definitely a thorn for the U.S. security services since he exposed their unsavory habits and tools.
Yes, given what I know, Trump should have pardoned both Snowden and Assage. Or at least given some kind of limited immunity for their complete testimony. Deep State representatives like McConnell and Graham wanted to discourage these actions.
Unfortunately, those are the people that McConnel and others didn’t object to, plus I’m sure Mr and Mrs Ivanka suggested them.
Judging from the timing it’s likely Putin’s way of annoying the biden misadministration. Doubt if he cares about Snowden.
Post 9/11 the US government has resorted to extreme tactics both domestic and foreign.
Snowden revealing the dirty side of US spying to maintain US dominance “world order” call it what you will.
The entrapment of the individuals arrested for January 6th parallels the tactics used with international terrorists that is leading jihadists into traps like the Civil War in Syria.
We recently learned that a Canadian intelligence operative was moving people including underage girls into Syria to join ISIS.
In other words a human trafficker.
Canadian intelligence does not work on its own it’s coordinated with the US.
Snowden did this he did that but what has it come to with the CIA, FBI our own side of the street in adhering to moral and or legal standards including dare I say the Constitution of the United States.
It was revealed last month
Or Snowden was always working for the Deep State. Didn’t that make a lot of sense?
Snowden revealing the dirty side of US spying to maintain US dominance “world order” call it what you will.
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which information was freely available through any public library for decades.
The rest of your response is more conflation.
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