I wrote this on another thread where the focus is on Snowden and not the actions of our government.
Oh noes... he broke his promise not to keep secret that the United States Government has trampled the constitution and violated every Americans’ right to privacy. He dared expose the dirty little secret that this government could give a rats’ ass about your/everyone’s constitutional rights.
He showed the hypocrisy of the Right’s belief that the Constitution is scared document and not a living breathing one. His existence exposes our spineless defense of the writers who wrote several amendments covering the rights of privacy to prevent tyranny.
For we folded like a deck of cards and are more alarmed about the person that exposed the massive uncontrolled crushing of our privacy rights than the action itself. I guess all the articles and amendments of the Constitution should come with a disclaimer, “If fighting terrorism all the above is null and void.”
Of course it would be silly to defend the Constitution when we can worry about what Eddie had for breakfast, much more important.
So I’m guessing you’ve not actually read an entire article on Snowden from start to finish, and you’ve just skimmed headlines.
Either that, or you’re willfully ignorant about anything that doesn’t make Snowden look like your hero, EVEN SNOWDEN’S OWN WORDS:
In his interview with the Post, Snowden divulged information that he claimed showed hacking by the NSA into computers in Hong Kong and the mainland...
...If I have time to go through this information, I would like to make it available to journalists in each country to make their own assessment, independent of my bias, as to whether or not the knowledge of US network operations against their people should be published.”
If you’re waiting with bated breath for details about how the NSA targets Sarah Palin or something, you’re going to be waiting a long time.
The overwhelming majority of what the NSA does is spy on foreigners, and that’s undoubtedly the vast majority of the material he took, and it’s going to be the vast majority of what he leaks in the coming weeks and months.
There’s another possibility; you really like the People’s Republic of China and Russia, and you’re offended that the NSA would spy on them.