I am sick and tired of seeing posts defending Snowden..so here is my side

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103. what if, what if, what if

This is yet another in a series of attempts to distract from the contents of what a whistle blower leaked. It's the same tactics used on Manning and Assange, and goes way back as far as Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon papers. - get somebody to say they are somehow "reasonable" and "valid", have them say not one word about the content, just generalize the leak as damaging to the US, create a bunch of hypotheticals, refer to "State Secrets" make numerous attacks upon the character of the whistleblower, use a bunch of loaded terminology, in hopes of inciting anger, and hope that it will work to distract from the truth of the contents of the leaks - the US has done some illegal and immoral things, and does not want them to come to light. No matter what has to be done to prevent that.

This post, and other articles, all use the same formula. It's getting tiring in its repitition, especially when the contents of the leaks are examined, and it is found that the "Secret" and "Sensitive" data was not so secret after all, and the ballyhooed "Betrayals and traitorous acts, could not be proven and none actually happened. But what was found is concrete evidence of US atrocities, criminal acts and subterfuge. Oh, nevermind that, eh?

The worst part, is, i bet this diarist never said a word about when Cheney etc., exposed a US spy, Valerie Plame, and actually committed a textbook traitorous act, and, as far as we can tell, is spending exactly zero time trying to bring those who exposed Plame to trial for betraying the US.