So consider the source:
Pee-freaking-are.
... these officials are out of line with Obama’s general agenda. Why should they be concerned while Obama is seeking to marginalize if not destroy America and its hard worked for advantages?
He sure has put a bug up Obama's .....
The idea that ONE PERSON can bundle all the info is ridiculous. I can see a slice....but the whole apple??? That tells me the system is not secure....and our system is NOT secure.
Those same “officials” are doing more damage to America could in snowden’s wildest dreams.
Damage assessment?
Last week they were deciding to claim the assertions were wrong.
If the program doesn’t exist zero damage is possible.
Does every raving paranoid assertion “damage” the intelligence comunity?
Perhaps this administration should be locking up all thos Occupy Wallstreet loons then.
Or they are busted and nothing they could protect the citizenry from is as bad as what they have been doing.
Thank you ABC for distracting us from the real issues and damage being done to the U.S vis-a-vis Obama/DOJ/NSA/IRS.
They’ll play this story until the cows come home as long as they can avoid covering the real crimes.
Seems to me that the NSA constitution shredding machine is doing far more damage.
Compare with
How Obama HAS hurt the US.
“...there is a growing consensus within the top circles of the U.S. government that the 30-year-old contractor could deal a potentially devastating blow to U.S. national security.”
Nothing is more devastating than any typical day in the Obama administration. And I find it interesting that nothing like this was blurted out from “media” circles when Clinton handed over huge amounts of missile delivery technology to the Chinese in exchange for a $100,000 donation to the DNC.
But, but, but, he is a high school drop out and barely literate. With much sarcasm.
Yeah Right.
The marxist, muslim, foreigner squatting in the White House has done more damage.
I really think NSA is now a foreign entity. The muslim brotherhood is probably in charge.
There is no America anymore. After a long sickness, it officially died in 2008.
I want to know if the U.S. intelligence community was targeting conservatives. If Edward Snowden has that information he needs to share it...
The only thing he’ll “hurt” is Obama and his evil administration.
So consider the source:
That’s odd. When this story broke I heard Difi and any number of talking heads downplaying it, saying Snowden wasn’t really saying anything that wasn’t already out there and that everybody already knew about.
Snowden hasn’t hurt the US, Obama and W have though.
Snowdon hurt us?
And Sotoro’s bunch HASN’T? And WORSE?
Get real.
This kind of thing has happened before. Some fifty-three years ago, the then 29-year-old William Martin and 31-year-old Bernon Mitchell decided the NSA was MUCH too intrusive, and they went public with their inner knowledge of the workings of that organization, once so secretive it was called “No Such Agency”.
We were again severely compromised in early 2001, in an incident over the South China Sea, when a US Navy plane was flying some routine patterns. The Navy plane was accosted by fighter pilots of the Peoples Liberation Army, and in a close encounter that got a little TOO close, one of the fighter pilots brushed against the nose of the P3 Orion, and crashed his jet into the sea. In the Hainan Island incident, the now crippled Orion craft turned and put the pedal to the metal, trying to escape back to the Phillipines. But with the broken nose, its airspeed was appreciably slowed, and soon other PLA fighter planes appeared, and they forced the pilot into one of two choices - fly into the sea, or turn back to Hainan Island, Chinese territory.
Ordinarily, this would not be a big deal. But the plane had a considerable amount of surveillance apparatus aboard, with all the codes and communications equipment. Working swiftly as they could, the crew managed to disable of destroy a good deal of the apparatus, but before they had satisfactorily completed the job, the plane was forced to the ground and boarded, the crew taken prisoner. The plane was retained by the Chinese authorities, and it probably yielded up a considerable amount of intelligence before it was eventually returned.
But that was not a conscious act of running to the enemy, so to speak. That was a capture, and while a setback, the crew had acted in good faith and tried to respond to the situation to the degree they were able.
Doing more damage to America’s national security than 0bama and his Commie saboteurs have would be quite a tall order.