The Pursuit of Edward Snowden: Washington in a Rage, Striving to Run the World

[karynnj]

72. Were you alive in 1971? It was every bit as paranoid - for good reasons - time period

Do you think people who were willing to face jail in the 60s and 70s over things they believed in were "stupid"? I guess you think that the civil rights activists were stupid -- or that Ellsberg was. It is rather interesting that you seem to think Obama is worse than Nixon. Was the US less brutal in Vietnam than in Iraq/Afghanistan etc?

Do you see the risk in going to countries - like China and Russia? Do you think that they will allow genuine freedom for him to speak on anything he wants? Do you see that there is a risk that they will use him? Where does he turn if that starts to happen? Wikileaks? How much power does Wikileaks have? (Oddly more in the comparatively open US than in Russia or China.)

As to him being "stupid", I never said he was. I also do not credit him with being brilliant on ANYTHING OTHER than computer programming. As to working on the type of data that he did, the big question is why, in spite of his technical expertise, how he passed the background checks.