Posted on 10/01/2022 9:19:46 PM PDT by george76
You didn’t answer any of my questions, which says enough.
Conservatives respect the rule of law. Really?
So, in 2017, when the Republicans had the White House, Senate and House of Representatives how long did the hearings about the uncontrolled surveillance the US Intelligence community was performing? I must have missed them.
The same folks that Snowden could have went to are the same ones allowing all of it.
You can think what you want. I’m glad he did what he did.
all of that once his original handlers in the CCP tossed him out of China.
The Eddy Snowjob story starts at the beginning in China, not in the middle of the ending in Russia.
So did he. He signed an agreement when he took the job, then reneged on it. Called into work and lied about getting checked for epilepsy. Downloads stuff he didn’t bother to read or filter and takes it off site. Fails to make any effort to go through chain of command or at least some duly elected official, even bypasses the idea of taking his supposed constitutional concerns to the judiciary. Embraces a reporter for The Guardian, and also Poitras, a/k/a Dances With Iraqi Insurgents. Runs to the tyranny of Cuba where citizens aren’t just snooped on but have no freedom at all. Dabbles with Venezuela, another tyranny. Runs to Russia. He says he is a “citizen of the world,” and last time I checked anyone who produces nuggets like that is a douche. Now he is citizen of Russia.
I'm not unhappy that he did it, I just don't think running away makes him a hero.
He made his choices and it's his choice to be in Russia. If he's willing to take accountability for what he did he can come home any time
He said he would return if he could get a fair trial.
He cannot get that in America anymore. Nobody gets a fair trial unless they are supporters of the regime in DC.
He might as well stay where he is at. He ended up better off than Julian Assange.
Who was he going to run to? There want anyone in the government or their media partners to run to.
Had he stated he’d be in the DC prison or SuperMax rotting away, if not worse.
They wouldn’t have let any of that see the light of day
Look at what they did with the Epstein stuff….
https://thepostmillennial.com/flashback-abc-news-killed-the-jeffery-epstein-story
There would have been an all out disinformation campaign and it would have disappeared.
Believe that or not, today he could easily raise the money from supporters to hire the best defense lawyers out there. And every aspect of his prosecution would be public.
The simple fact is he broke the law and he knows it. It wouldn’t take some government conspiracy to convict him.
He wants an exception because he feels his lawbreaking was justified, and who knows, a jury may agree, but there’s no reason to think he wouldn’t get a fair trial
I meant to include you on 26.
“The Obama administration had invalidated his passport.”
And then for more than two years, Biden has refused to validate Snowden’s U.S. Passport.
And Trump for 4 years.
If he refuses to come home no one is going to validate his passport.
All of Congress, the FBI, CIA, NSA, et al, took oaths to defend the Country and the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.
What about that?
Do you think Clapper upheld his oath? Barr? Durham?
“In short, the only way for Snowden to be treated justly is for him to be pardoned”
A few years ago I read that there was discussion by Trump and his administration to pardon Snowden. Snowden was not receptive because he didn’t like Trump, said something like, “Trump doesn’t know what true love is”. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face! Makes no sense, and I don’t even know if it’s true.
He could raise a billion for his defense. He’d never get out of jai, regardless.
And you’re still hung up in the fact that he broke the law.
With that thinking you’d never know about what the US government was and is doing to us.
So, I’m ok with him breaking the law. I wish more Snowdens would do it.
You’re ok with that, good on you.
Well, yeah.
Who decides which criminals shouldn’t be prosecuted because some people think what they did had merit?
There’s the rub.
Some could argue that there are two crimes committed:
Snowden stole files that the US Government was illegally spying on citizens for NO reason.
The US Government was spying on American citizens, anytime they wanted for NO reason.
You’re more concerned with the former, than the latter. You’re a Deep State Plant/Stooge/I have nothing to hide so I don’t care. I’m more concerned with the fact that the US government was and is, spying on American’s. Listening to phone calls. Storing metadata.
Look at what they did to President Trump. And all you care about is....he stole something and should be held to account.
Snowden gave those files to two people he thought he could trust to get the information out. If he had gone any other route anything he found would have been handled like the Ark of the Covenant at the end of the first Indiana Jones movie.
And you still didn’t answer ONE of the questions I posed to you, earlier. Ergo, you’re a fed. You’re a Deep State stooge. Or you’re not seeing the forest for the trees.
Either way, I’m done talking to a door knob.
The activities of our intelligence agencies were reviewed by Congress and some changes were made but no criminal acts were uncovered. That’s how our system works.
Snowden broke the law, he knows it, but won’t face his accounting.
You know it too but want to give him a pass because you like what he did.
…you’re a fed. You’re a Deep State stooge. Or you’re not seeing the forest for the trees.
I haven’t taken a penny from the government and I see clearly. Snowden may have meant well but it isn’t for either of us to say he doesn’t have to obey the law.
Go away. Good Lord.
The same government that lied to take down a sitting President found no wrongdoing.
IOW, we asked the bank robber if he robbed the bank and after his in-depth investigation, he reported that he did NOT rob the bank.
Is Ray Epps a good neighbor?
Please explain that to the Jan 6 political prisoners.
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