icecold12741

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by icecold12741 10y ago
Except they didn't lie. He said he saw them lie to Congress but that was for the open-door, public session. If you think Congress isn't getting the details in closed-door, classified briefs, then you don't understand the rela
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by icecold12741 10y ago
The real question is how much of it was because of him. They assume it was him that made these changes but that's ignoring the data leak of over 100,000,000 government employees personal information, plus the University of Maryland hac
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by icecold12741 10y ago
That debate will always be at the forefront of security. In the 19th century, when the first professional police departments were established, people were outraged and convinced that the police were there to take away their liberty. It does
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by icecold12741 10y ago
History is written by the victor. There was a large number of people who did not want the US to secede from Britain (including John Adams) but the history books (as given to the normal population) show us a proud group of united patriots wh
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by icecold12741 10y ago
The internal mechanisms actually work, if you use them. Snowden has admitted in subsequent interviews to not even trying to report through any channel. Something most people that are not government don't realize about whistleblowing is
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by icecold12741 10y ago
Basically, yes. Also, the evidence shows that he didn't one day "see something wrong and decided to report it" as the narrative claims. He quit a job on one contract to take another job (which he lied about his experience to
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by icecold12741 10y ago
Another point to be made is that while they say that "much has changed due to his actions" not all has been positive. Several court cases came out after this affirming the idea that you have no "reasonable expectation of priv
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by icecold12741 10y ago
You can always check out Object Oriented Analysis and Design by Head First ( http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfooad/ ). Their books are more about learning the concepts than the theory so they employ a lot of gam