What you are not being told about Booz Allen and Edward Snowden

[truedelphi]

Now according to some people here at DU, Ed Snowden is a traitor.

But my question remains this one: If Snowden did something very bad in terms of leaking what he did, should there not be repercussions tot he firm that he worked for? After all, Booz Allen has received tens of billions of dollars over the years, yet the leaks still happened.

So exactly how is it that the firm Booz Allen remains connected to our governmental officials and thereby escapes any pain that should result from Snowden's exploits?

[blm]

1. Booz Allen is BFEE. BFEE has more REAL power than any Dem WH has had or will ever have.

When Poppy was choosing in the 70s and 80s the private firms that would be tapped and developed to service the intel and security forces of this nation, do you think he went with allies who were aligned with him and the agenda of his fascist cronies, or independent operators who would be loyal to any president?

[truth2power]

4. A long time ago I read somewhere on the internet that if anyone

wants to know who had a hand in 9/11 to look at a company named Booz Allen.

At the time I had never heard of them, but I remember because the name is odd - Booz.

I don't know any more than that about it, but I can't get that thought out of my mind.

[Clyde Tenson]

3. This just takes your breath away.

I'm gobsmacked. And there are hungry children in the land of the free.

[TwilightGardener]

5. Never made sense to me why Booz Allen still has a contract with the government

after all this. But they're very interwoven with military and DoD operations--they have a lot of access. Got their tentacles all over government.

[JDPriestly]

6. It's as if Booz Allen took a page out of the old 007, James Bond movies

and became the bad guys who are trying to establish world domination to benefit themselves. Sounds crazy and I am making a feeble joke, but that is what I thought of when I watched the video. Remember the creepy guy who was James Bond's opponent? That's what this story on Booz Allen makes me think of.

[zeemike]

7. Let's face the fact...the system is corrupt to the core.

And it is Fascism...the merger of state and business, but no one can say it...because it is wrapped in the flag.

[uponit7771]

8. NO!! By his own admission ES went to Booz Allen to steal PERIOD! Also... Also, If ES REALLY beleived

...that there should be public discourse about these subjects then he should be subject to trial by peers.

Right now Snowden is saying we have a right to know about the spy agencies actions so we can have a public debate

but

We shouldn't have a trial to whether his actions were legal or not because that shouldn't be up to debate by jury.

Hypocrit at best IMHO

[truedelphi]

9. My question stands outside the realm of Snowden's guilt or

Innocence.

If you or I screw up somewhere we work,if we simply miscount the number of boxes of staples the company has ordered, we are reprimanded and maybe put on probation.

Yet here you have a company allied with Carlisle, and receiving tens of billions of dollars of tax payer money, for the purposes of National Security, and yet even though they apparently had few controls to stop young Snowden from his theft - they have not so much as been reprimanded!

[annm4peace]

10. Exactly!!!!

I hope the news commentators start asking these questions!

[wildbilln864]

12. they won't! n/t

[wildbilln864]

11. K & freakin r! n/t

[wildbilln864]

13. Bin Ladens....

were investors in this group!

[wildbilln864]

14. part two...

www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_4079300411&feature=iv&src_vid=5xcbi5SH27c&v=gXfjd1ffpQ8

[truedelphi]

16. Thank you. Great find - Could you put the

http:// in front of the video link you cited and then it would pop up for all of us??

[imthevicar]

15. Now according to some people here at DU, Ed Snowden is a traitor.

And the following folks were also called that, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X. JFK, RFK, Lincoln, Elsberg, Woodward and Bernstein, the list goes on and on. Sounds like he's in good company..