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In reply to the discussion: At this point the Snowden fan club has a lot of egg on their faces. [View all]backwoodsbob
(6,001 posts)310. actually Snowden may be the biggest hero of our lifetime
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At this point the Snowden fan club has a lot of egg on their faces. [View all]
Cali_Democrat
Jun 2013
OP
Snowden was the one who made it about Snowden when he decided not to be anonymous.
pnwmom
Jun 2013
#223
It's nothing compared to the blood on the hands of those who lied America into war.
Octafish
Jun 2013
#2
people who sell their country's secrets to foreign govenrments are always held in special contempt
arely staircase
Jun 2013
#7
he sold his country's secrets to a foreign (totalitarian) government for sactuary
arely staircase
Jun 2013
#262
Which is pretty damned chickenshit compared to the one percenters who packed up
eridani
Jun 2013
#339
Unless those secrets are corporate, then it's called capitalism and all is forgiven
Eddie Haskell
Jun 2013
#353
And pretty damned chickenshit compared to giving large chunks of our manufacturing capacity
eridani
Jun 2013
#340
and that is what is troubling, why didn't he go to a Congress Person. He could have gone to Rand
still_one
Jun 2013
#3
Ron Wyden asked the DNI point blank if the Govt was collecting all this data and the man lied!
dkf
Jun 2013
#15
Wyden asked Clapper point blank if they were collecting any data on millions of Americans
dkf
Jun 2013
#334
Actually he would have been better off going to Wyden, since he was one of the ones
davidpdx
Jun 2013
#330
Yep. I mixed up Rand with Ron when I read Ron Paul's calling Snowden a hero; Rand then said
AlinPA
Jun 2013
#172
remember FBI whistleblower sibel edmonds, went through official channels, gagged in 2004
Monkie
Jun 2013
#44
Damn... Weird karma that I replied to this post at the same time you did. Just submitted later...
cascadiance
Jun 2013
#56
The point is, the government/nsa acted under the law as it stands. Snowden is not a whistleblower
Windy
Jun 2013
#255
Ask Sibel Edmonds why this DOES NOT WORK! "State Secrets Privilege" ran her life!
cascadiance
Jun 2013
#47
Sorry, it wasn't just "one occasion"... She's just the most visible of MANY such cases...
cascadiance
Jun 2013
#147
Thomas Drake wrote today, Snowden has seen what happens to other whistleblowers lately.
Hissyspit
Jun 2013
#254
"National Whistleblowers Center issued a statement on Re-Introduction of Whistleblower Protection
Hissyspit
Jun 2013
#269
"The WPEA makes federal whistleblower rights stronger than at any time in history."
DCBob
Jun 2013
#271
Handing this information over to the Chinese puts this whole thing on another level.
hrmjustin
Jun 2013
#4
Wait-- so did we all know about this program already, or is he a terrible traitor for revealing
Marr
Jun 2013
#73
Yep...The country's going to hell due to the obscene greed of the One Percent & their lackeys. n/t
whathehell
Jun 2013
#231
What were they before they were outsourced to the Private Contractors?
VanillaRhapsody
Jun 2013
#288
Do you think that I believe that they can all go away POOF in one fell swoop...
VanillaRhapsody
Jun 2013
#294
I agree. This is treason, Snowden is a traitor and should be dealt with as such.
DrewFlorida
Jun 2013
#17
That is what he says. Do you trust him? I have a hard time believing a word he says.
hrmjustin
Jun 2013
#101
You're sick and don't belong on a democrat focused board. Due process is what we adhere to here.
Ed Suspicious
Jun 2013
#33
If I can't emphatically state that democrats are for due process and that they oppose the death
Ed Suspicious
Jun 2013
#65
I, personally, don't give a flying fuck. We've been spying and hacking for decades and I am sure the
Luminous Animal
Jun 2013
#32
Whatever. We know they are doing the same to us. It's the how that matters.
Luminous Animal
Jun 2013
#258
It's his revelations about the NSA spying on the people, not Snowden, that concerns me.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jun 2013
#34
i know this is the US, but revealing to a newspaper is not the same as revealing to a government?
Monkie
Jun 2013
#60
i bet microsoft appreciated the irony of paying 1.9 billion dollars in fines for breaking EU law
Monkie
Jun 2013
#167
That's pretty much what Henry Pate said to John Brown after the battle of Black Jack
LanternWaste
Jun 2013
#62
I wonder if he is the only bad apple in the 500,000 private contractor employees....
kentuck
Jun 2013
#78
I am not sure I buy Snowden's claims of access 100 percent. Can he really wiretap Obama?
emulatorloo
Jun 2013
#140
That's what he claims. I am not sure his claims are 100 per cent accurate.
emulatorloo
Jun 2013
#216
Yeah...I am not one for jumping on bandwagons until more information comes out
HipChick
Jun 2013
#226
It is about us, and I want my government back from the snakes who pull this crap every week.
ucrdem
Jun 2013
#134
I don't trust that little weasel and think he should be tried for treason. Who is bankrolling him
appleannie1
Jun 2013
#136
What if he decided to talk to al Qaeda or the Aryan Nations, instead of Glenn Greenwald?
baldguy
Jun 2013
#142
LOL, if he is so crazy why is the Administration so upset about this? You are freaking clueless! n-t
Logical
Jun 2013
#178
And he's the only one we know of because he seems to think he's a man with principles
Snake Plissken
Jun 2013
#181
Because in the previous post you seem to imply his bio has some sort of impact
LondonReign2
Jun 2013
#238
I'd defend the NSA and US/China business dealings even if this came out under Bush.
Dr Fate
Jun 2013
#236
OT, but I just wanted to say hello. I haven't seen you in a long time, and I'm happy you're here.
DisgustipatedinCA
Jun 2013
#257
I don't care at all what he did or didn't do or what his motivations are
TheKentuckian
Jun 2013
#204
I have as much contempt for Snowden as I do for Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, et al.
Tarheel_Dem
Jun 2013
#208
"Shilling" is exactly right. He timed this perfectly, didn't he? Break news & go on book tour.
Tarheel_Dem
Jun 2013
#229
Why look! It's the civil liberty-hating Julian Assange hate club. Sorry about your pony lol n/t
Catherina
Jun 2013
#218
Why look! It's the government-hating Ron Paul Revolution fan club. Sorry about your loss lol n/t
Bobbie Jo
Jun 2013
#314
Here's a person who does not understand what his Code of Ethics contains ir either he just does not
Thinkingabout
Jun 2013
#355