Seems to me you can get the message out in a better manner than he did. I’m not a big fan of his.
Some of the stuff he dumped wasn’t a big favor to our nation, even if you don’t back the NSA doing what it has been.
Does any of us back the NSA on what they were doing?
It’s one thing to target suspected terrorists. It’s another to target normal citizens. So to hell with the NSA on that count.
Now back to him.
I’m not buying the idea he was a white knight.
I don’t think he had some massively great sense of great justice. He is a lib afterall. But what he did was ultimately right. Because the NSA is ultimately violating the Constitution. Thats the bottom line. Imagine how much further along they would be into our lives had he not.
The federal government and our nation are two entirely different entities. Snowden did nothing to hurt our nation.
I absolutely agree.....
I won’t give Snowden any credit....none.
It’s not like this wasn’t known...it was...he just happened to get the Guardian Journalist to get the brownie points for covering/revealing HIS discovery.
Without the press Snowden wouldn’t have gotten to first base.
If NSA is disbanded, as some on this forum seem to want to see happen, who would keep an ear on the various bad guys in southwest Asia and the Middle East, or Russian armored divisions, the Russian Air and Naval Fleets? And what about China? North Korea? Drug traffickers? Some on this forum seem to think that the Agency has dropped its coverage of real targets and are now covering Big Pharm or Big Insurance.