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In reply to the discussion: Do you agree with John Boehner that Edward Snowden is a traitor? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)his day in in the current climate of lawlessness where War Criminals receive medals and honest, ethical citizens who see wrong doing and report it, are prosecuted? People like Drake, eg. Why was he prosecuted?
Snowden knows the smear machine will be out in full force tainting any jury he might face. The minute he is detained he will have no voice, he has seen it happen now so many times over the past number of years. He is absolutely correct to remain free as long as he can so HE gets to speak rather than the Private Corporate shills who are behind all of this and their puppets and former employees like our current Director of Intelligence ( that old revolving door again and the huge conflicts of interest now exposed as it should be) who someone manage to get into powerful positions in our government and who just lied to Congress. There will be no consequences for him though, because the law does NOT apply to everyone.
I trust Ellsberg's judgement on this. And Wyden's warnings are now understandable to us. His hands were tied, but he tried. And I trust Wyden on matters of Civil Liberties over any of the shills I've been hearing since this all began, like Rep. Peter 'we count the votes' King, or Ari Fleischer. When they are on your side, you KNOW you are on the wrong side.