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Snowden revealed warrantless wiretapping of US citizens, not just foreign nationals. Unlike WikiLeaks he reviewed each document before release to attempt to min
by Volundr 4y ago
Snowden revealed warrantless wiretapping of US citizens, not just foreign nationals. Unlike WikiLeaks he reviewed each document before release to attempt to minimize harm.
- meepmorp 4y agoI'm not sure why you're bringing up a completely tangential topic, even as you seemingly agree with the core point I made: Snowden revealed information about completely and indisputably legal intelligence activities. It's either careless or malicious.
- Volundr 4y agoI rather think that revealing that our government is violating our 4th amendment rights is worth whatever minor harm it may have done to our ability to spy on our allies. I don't think you can reveal something like PRISM being used domestically without also revealing it's non-domestic applications. You think foreign intelligence agencies can't do the math on what it means for the NSA to have unfettered access to places like Google? Also legal does not mean moral. Your free to disagree, but my opinion is that Snowden did the American people a public service, and put clear effort into minimizing the damage. It's not some unambiguous knight in shining armor situation, but more of a shades of grey situation where in my opinion the good outweighed the harm.