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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So well said.
I’m not nearly senior enough to clean up any illegal stuff going on in Washington, but I also will never commit espionage against my country. You don’t get that Snowden didn’t just release the knowledge of illegal domestic survellience. He stole pretty much everything he could download. That’s the mark of a traitor, not a patriot, though the left media would love that you think otherwise.
Snowden was a whistleblower. He did violate the law and the establishment wants you to focus on this fact.
The NSA and intel agencies are violating people’s 4th amendment rights everyday. They are concerned with and are intent on punishing anyone that criticizes the government.
Snowden is not a threat to out liberties and he has provided sunshine. The IC is illegal corrupt and very dangerous to everyone that takes their freedom seriously.
No, not at all, unless you approve of one crime to counter another.
I refer you to 22.
The IC is working hard to provide our warriors with the info they need to conduct their missions and come home safe.
The political and the corrupt, like any other profession, give the 95% a bad name, and they should be held accountable.
At first I was mostly convinced that what he did was right.
Now?
I’m *completely* convinced.
You should read the code of the programs he exposed. It changed my mind. It made me realize why be went to China then Russia. Really get the vault 7 drops read just the comments and user documents if you not software savvy. I doubt you’ll come away thinking he a hero but for me it made aware it’s way more complicated. Obama Brennen Comey way more culpable
But it’s okay if the government spies on us. I see. You’ve convinced me Ed did the right thing. I don’t think you get it. How out of control our spooks are.
Whistleblowing is usually breaking some law, especially according to the corrupt. It would be great to have a world in pure black or white, but this is the only world we have for now.
He revealed essential information to the American public. He was really one of the first to pull back the curtain on the deep state.
He was also one of many that wrote books about NSA. He just capitalized on his media-created fame. And now again.
He was a traitor of the first order, revealing to the Chinese, then to the Russians, and later to Iran NSA’s cryptologic Methods and Means - these are the essentials for collecting intel on foreign actors and nations, now made useless, worse people were killed because of these revelations.
There are many in and out of the Intel community that would kill him out of hand, if presented with that opportunity. Worship and support him at your own peril.
You learned nothing from Snowjob’s revelations” that was not already in the public domain and had been for over 50 years.
You have no idea of what your are talking about - NSA is not what you imagine, nor is it part of what you call “not working and dirty”. If NSA is not working as it should that is due to people like Snowjob, Eddie Snowjob is a self-loathing, willful America-hating traitor.
Well, because Snowden exposed our government’s surveillance programs, ISIS terrorists are able to cover up their tracks
Snowden was a whistleblower. He did violate the law and the establishment wants you to focus on this fact.
No not a whistle-blower, not a mere ‘lawbreaker’, but a traitor. He wants you to believe that the stuff the media popularized was not already in the public domain and not look at the real damage he did nor the lives lost due to his betrayal. That same media, which excoriates DJT on an hourly basis, is somehow truthful about what Snowjob did and what it meant.
Snowjob has already cost lives of dedicated US citizens working for NSA overseas. s/ Some ray of “sunshine”! I’m sure the families of the dead would cheer their losses. /s Losses seems to have assuaged your feelings toward NSA and the difficult and dangerous work they perform to keep all of us safe. Just stop talking about something you know nothing about and are likely to never know, and be glad for it.
no disagreement there.
Yep - can’t prosecute Snowden unless you throw away a LOT of keys for NSA and other Intel folks....
One crime of traitorous espionage doesn’t fix another crime of illegal spying. They are both wrongs.
No, there is actually a legal process. People going outside of that process are breaking the laws. It doesn’t help when the system is corrupt from above (Clapper, Brennan,etc) but those in the business go into the business very clearly understanding the obligations of protecting the sources and methods, and the consequences of willfully violating that obligation. Again, Snowden compromised sources and methods that made it harder to track terrorists, harder to prep our troops to go do their mission and come home safely, and make Americans at home less safe. Again, not the act of a hero or patriot. Who exactly did Snowden attempt to legally express his concerns to before he downloaded basically everything he could using his bosses stolen password?
In principle I agree Snowden would be dead if he blew the whistle and stayed here. It’s not just spying. They built and have blackmail database to subvert political enemies. Brennen brought in hackers in to the CIA they have adapted and expanded the stuff we have been using in the war on terror to use on the people of this nation. More than likely they use it to give insider info on stock trades to allies enemies go see Lois Lerner. I’ve gone back and forth on Snowden. I think he is both 1. A moron 2. The exception that proves the rule
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