Here comes the obligatory character assassination of a guy who may single-handedly force a decision about whether the 4th Amendment means anything.
So, the leaks about Prism were a smokescreen? Could well be...
Hello..you in the office of smeardom, we do not care that this guy got his GED and then got a job in the government making six figures...we already knew that was happening everyday...But thanks for trying to protect the old “motherland”. Salute.
Does the author believe the leaks to be false information?
It seems like the author wants me to be upset at the leaker instead of the unconstitutional practices of the US government.
Earlier reports had him voting for Ron Paul. Hmmmm.
>> He now claims to be deeply disillusioned about Iraq, the CIA, and Obama. He might be one of the most disillusioned people in the whole world.
That’s a hilarious line Leno could use!
>> Hes also dishonest, having lied to his supervisors and claimed
Give him a break. He thought he was doing God’s work.
I think it’s way too early too judge this guy one way or the other. But CIA training must be pretty darn good to equal $200K for a GED.
I heard an NPR piece on Snowden this morning. It was sort of a Q&A between the host and a reporter and it was pretty obvious that neither approved of Snowden and that the proper position for an enlightened listener was to disapprove of him too. They made this obvious in that slighting way that liberals make things obvious without saying it flat out.
I’m a little conflicted because my read on Snowden is not a positive one. I think he’s a V for Vendetta loving drama queen. He’s come along at the right moment to embarrass Obama but I suspect he’s a self-important weenie nevertheless.
NSA has been recording ALL traffic since forever - or at least before the early 60s.
The only thing different today is instead of analog tape, it is recorded on digital media.
In the good ol days they had to tap physically into a line, then they moved on to catching loops between repeaters. Now they can catch signals off most anything via cell towers and taps into server backdoors - curtsy of M$.
Sat dump catching was new in the 60s. Now it is just routine.
This guy is a wacko and should never have been granted confidential clearances let alone Top Secret Whatever it is that he held. But then the days of million dollar security clearances are long gone.
Fleeing to China probably indicates he was turned by the PLA intel guys at some point. Will he return to the US? Maybe in a body bag, if the PLA ever lets him go, which if he was turned, they won't. All worried about US intel guys catching him he was ... wait til the PLA intel guys show him the real world.
As for any putative US prosecution, he will have signed a binding agreement for any disclosures making him eligible for $10K fine and 10 years hard time (no parole) (or that was what it was in the 60s).
Either way, he is going down.
Trouble is all the hard copy he took will do us all enormous damage and give the PLA still another leg up on the US especially hacking US servers.
my 2 copper pennies.
Wow, Human Events as the Volkischer Beobachter. Who would have known? The statists march.
I keep expecting to see the name Alex Jones in these articles. This is the kind of soul shattering stuff that he talks about on his show.