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The part that you are missing is that the media and people who have worked in government are calling him a traitor and suggesting many of things you have said t
by jswinghammer 13y ago
The part that you are missing is that the media and people who have worked in government are calling him a traitor and suggesting many of things you have said the administration has not done. This means what you say is technically true but misses the important fact that the media has become a tool of the state. The administration can just sit back and let the agents of the state work in the media. See James Woolsey on CNN recently for an example.
Ron Paul said it best when he said "Truth is treason in an empire of lies." Snowdon may have broken the law but he exposed the higher law (the 4th amendment to the US constitution) is being violated at will all day every day.
I actually just hope that Snowdon exposed the worst thing that the NSA was doing. I suspect he did not.
- VladRussian2 13y ago>I actually just hope that Snowdon exposed the worst thing that the NSA was doing. I suspect he did not. well, low level IT tech employed by a contractor, young, without a family ... his access would basically be only to the typical everyday stuff, nothing exceptional or really secret. He didn't actually leaked any new information. It was all de-facto known [the notion of "foreigner" in FISA magically put concerns of citizens to sleep, while even if the government wanted (big if), how could they program Big Computer to distinguish between foreigner (fair kosher game under FISA) and a citizen? By looking up into one big database of all the citizens with all their attributes, including phone numbers, hair/eyes color, DMV and property records, guns owned, etc...? There seems to be still no such database as even government real people have issues deducing immigration status (even when they really interested in it, like in AZ)]. His act is mainly of political value, than of information value.