Posted on 09/14/2019 6:36:46 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Edward Snowden will join two U.S. news shows in the coming days to promotes the release of his memoir.
Snowden, the 36-year-old former intelligence analyst who was responsible for leaking information about the National Security Agency's global and domestic surveillance programs, currently lives in Russia after he applied for political asylum following he fled from the U.S.
He is set to join both "CBS This morning" and MSNBC's Brian Williams on Monday, where Snowden will face questions about his 2013 disclosure of leaked documents as well as his book, "Permanent Record," set to be published on Sept. 17.
"Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down," his publisher said last month.
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I have very mixed feelings about Snowden.
He didn’t actually ‘risk everything’ - he essentially ran away.
On the other hand, seeing what had happened to others trying to expose this kind of stuff, maybe he felt that he had no decent choice.
I do to. What he did was illegal. What the NSA did, and continues to do, is unconstitutional. What trumps?
Privacy remains heavily on the wane.
“too.”
I’m a 59 year old former intelligence analyst. Should I write a book?
If the Deep State could get their hands on him, he’d be deader than Jeffrey Epstein.
The Constitution should ‘trump’.
But you need decent, straightforward, courageous people on the Hill to ensure that.
After seeing what happened to people like William Binney and Thomas Drake, I can understand why Snowden decided to simply take a powder. I may not have done the same in the situation - or I may have.
(I do have greater respect for people who are willing to simply stand, and DEMAND that our system work the way it is supposed to do.)
I ordered the book. I don’t care what anyone says, I refuse to hate this guy. He revealed essential information to the American public. He was really one of the first to pull back the curtain on the deep state.
Hey, Eddie, hope you like your new forever home in Russia.
Well, the problem now is that the Russians ‘have their hands’ on him.
He’s still alive.
The real communists are now our Democrat Party and the Kenyanesian Usurper filled our government with them in his eight year usurpation.
‘Alive’ is one thing. But what is he possibly being coerced to do?
I tend to think that it would have been better for him, and for US, if he had stayed right here and ‘stuck it’, as better men have done - and survived - regardless of the enormous cost.
(I’m not judging him - I’ve never experienced a similar challenge. It’s just the way I’m seeing and thinking about it from the outside.)
Snowden was a traitor in the worst sense of the word. He put programs and people at great risk and hurt our country in countless ways. I’m not justifying domestic surveillance. Snowden downloaded and stole way more than that. He is a coward and should be put before a firing squad as much as that Bergdahl POS.
Well, if you’re going to ‘contract out’ to all sorts of people - not really understanding their levels of sophistication, understanding, intellectual abilities - you could wind up with a lot who are ‘freaked-out’ by what they see happening.
And, sometimes, they will essentially be RIGHT; even if they make the wrong choices as to how they deal with what they’ve seen.
James Clapper flat out lied about collecting millions of phone calls on US citizens. It’s thru Snowden’s release of info that we learned just how out of control our own spy agencies are. Add to it the coup plotters in the CIA and FBI and we’re about 2 degrees away from an unaccountable police state with the power to destroy anyone they don’t like. Snowden helped expose the abuse of power, for which I’m grateful.
There are ways to report illegal activities without committing espionage. There are whistle blower laws to protect the reporters. Snowden had that option. No. He choose to download in mass and release on his own. You may be grateful only because you will never fully know the extent of harm he did to this country.
My reply is in post 18.
Tell that to people like Bill Binney, who tried to ‘report’.
When the system becomes utterly corrupted, the people see it; and sometimes, from fear and distrust, they decide to take other avenues.
I’m not exonerating Snowden. But I can see how a young man may have seen what had gone before, and decided that he was trapped.
Work to clean up the system for which you advocate - because it’s become very dirty, and it’s NOT working.
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