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TheKentuckian

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19. Meh...you think the citizens of our friends and allies like being spied on in our dragnet?

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #15)

Tue Jun 25, 2013, 01:05 AM

Jun 2013

Everybody isn't China and Russia and China would be very difficult to prove on paper as an enemy at all. You look at the trade, the money lent and borrowed, they have most favored status, we buy their shit, they can buy our property, they have McDonald's and KFC.

That war is sub-zero.

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Snowden says he will hand documents over to the foreign press of whatever country is involved, [View all] pnwmom Jun 2013 OP

Good. dipsydoodle Jun 2013 #1

Leeeet the sun shine... Arctic Dave Jun 2013 #2

Damn right!!!! Nt newfie11 Jun 2013 #4

It became treason when krawhitham Jun 2013 #3

I think that pretty much fits the definition Hekate Jun 2013 #5

BINGO!!! nt kelliekat44 Jun 2013 #6

I wonder how naive Snowden really is about how the government works? Putting together... Hekate Jun 2013 #7

Something I've thought about him, that would actually mitigate his responsibility in my mind, pnwmom Jun 2013 #8

Yes, he may be on the spectrum siligut Jun 2013 #12

Yes -- naiveté is one of the features, and does seem characteristic of him. n/t pnwmom Jun 2013 #13

I've been thinking the same thing... Blue_Roses Jun 2013 #20

Right. And some of the ways he's described could just be describing pnwmom Jun 2013 #21

China already has the contents of his hard drive HipChick Jun 2013 #9

But he probably has multiple copies on thumb drives. pnwmom Jun 2013 #10

How anybody can be defending him - treestar Jun 2013 #11

Because we are against the spying siligut Jun 2013 #14

We need to distinguish between spying on foreign countries pnwmom Jun 2013 #15

Right, the big deal is that US citizens are being spied on by the NSA siligut Jun 2013 #16

Using the term that we are all being "spied on" treestar Jun 2013 #17

Meh...you think the citizens of our friends and allies like being spied on in our dragnet? TheKentuckian Jun 2013 #19

Bless his pointy little head, he's a brilliant computer nerd, a dogmatic libertarian, and a nitwit struggle4progress Jun 2013 #18