Peter King just made sense re: Snowden on msnbc

[Fla Dem]

24. This is all sounding way to contrived to me.

If this was a spy thriller movie, where the "hero"
-was a high school dropout
-where both the community colleges he said he attended has no record of him
-was kicked out of the army after 3 months
-goes to work at the NSA
-get his next job at a NSA sub-contractor at a salary of $122,000
-moves to Hawaii with a good looking girl
-receives a high level security clearance
-has access to the most sensitive documents regarding government surveillance
-after 3 months at his job somehow manages to steal high security documents
-turns those documents over to a reporter who just coincidentally he had been in contact with BEFORE he went to work for the sub-contractor
-up and leaves his girl friend in Hawaii and seeks sanctuary from one of the most oppressive governments in the world
-releases those documents which details electronic surveillance on that country just as the President is meeting with the head of that oppressive government

We would give the movie a thumbs down as way too far fetched to be real.

I am not happy that the NSA is collecting all my electronic data. But to me this guy is not a whistle blower. This information was known by congress. These procedures are legal under the Patriot Act. If this guy wanted to bring these practices to light, there were plenty of outlets in the USA he could have used. He went to a foreign country to "expose" the practices, he has sold information to the Chinese press, and he is hiding in a foreign country. By revealing this information the way he did, it has compromised any advantage the NSA had in tracking terrorist plots. In my books he is a traitor.