A truly FRIGHTENING post on DU today...."10 things to know about Snowden".

[FLyellowdog]

123. Come on, folks...get a grip.

"The thing that frightened me is that THIS is the kind of stuff that IS NOW being used AGAINST someone who dared to Step-Out-of-Line,
and the possibility that this kind of stuff is being collected, compiled, and stored under the protection of Homeland Security Secrecy Blanket."

MAJOR FAIL. This information was not collected, or compiled, or stored by our government...It was a journalist digging up facts from public and/or interviews and/or searching online.

…There were no interviews with high school associates, no new photographs, and no status updates from his Facebook or Twitter accounts, if indeed Snowden had any….
….Public records offered some clues about Snowden's background. Campaign finance data indicated Snowden made two donations, each worth $250, to the campaign of Ron Paul, the staunch libertarian Republican…
…Some details emerged on Monday about Snowden's girlfriend, with whom he shared, in his words, a "a very comfortable life" in Hawaii, until his disappearance less than three weeks ago…
…The couple lived in a house blue house with a neat lawn in Eleu Street in Waipahu. Snowden said he was earning around $200,000. "We occasionally saw him as he was coming or going, or checking mail, or getting the garbage," a neighbour, Carolyn Tijing, told local station KITV. Others described Snowden as private…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/11/edward-snowden-what-we-know-nsa

Calm down. These types of posts do nothing but spread misinformation. What's the point of that? Geez.