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In reply to the discussion: When you disrespect your own government and show such little reagard for your President, [View all]okaawhatever
(9,571 posts)36. That response is beyond ignorant. Theft is theft. Violating an oath is violating an oath. What
Snowden has revealed and what Snowden has stolen are two different issues anyway. His claims of doing this to expose the programs that gather information on American citizens didn't reveal anything new. He has four computers worth of data. We don't know what those contain. He did claim that he has the location and identification info of American spies and assets everywhere in the world. He hasn't revealed it yet, but when he does it won't support his claim that he is trying to expose the American gov't "spying" on American citizens.
If he wanted to be a whistle blower, he should have followed whistle blower laws. He didn't and isn't. He's an individual who took an oath and then violated it.
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When you disrespect your own government and show such little reagard for your President, [View all]
kelliekat44
Jun 2013
OP
If Bush behaved as Obama is behaving then, yes. The question is not about the
okaawhatever
Jun 2013
#17
if Snowden didn't reveal anything that wasn't already published and known Then he didn't do anything
Douglas Carpenter
Jun 2013
#26
That response is beyond ignorant. Theft is theft. Violating an oath is violating an oath. What
okaawhatever
Jun 2013
#36
until Snowden no one outside of the fringes of politics were even talkinga about the vast over reach
Douglas Carpenter
Jun 2013
#38
Interesting that we are required to find Democrats to be always as bad a Republicans
treestar
Jun 2013
#3
When our government shows so little regard for us and the Constitution, it deserves disrespect. n/t
winter is coming
Jun 2013
#8
AMEN! disrespecting authority and sassing back our leaders is an open invitation for more terrorist
Douglas Carpenter
Jun 2013
#16
I respect you for not coming right out and calling people terrorist sympathizers
magellan
Jun 2013
#24
The sources of the disregard are against my council and will. They violate our core law,
TheKentuckian
Jun 2013
#28