Ed Snowden: Leakers “should be shot in the balls,” and "cut this Social Security bullshit"

[caseymoz]

368. You mean to say

The NSA's surveillance was saving people's lives? Sorry, I don't believe that for a microsecond, and I don't believe they were doing it to save people's lives. That's a cover story.

Do you know who originated PRISM and other surveillance programs, since you think it's so good that we're being spied on? Dick "The Dick" Cheney. You think he did it to save lives? Since evil people can never do good things, if we're to believe the proposition behind this thread, how can you think Cheney's program was any good?

No, I think the Bush administration took advantage of Bush's negligence on 9/11 to put surveillance programs in place meant to spy on us, and incidentally on terrorists. I believe it was probably already used against the Occupy Movement, since Homeland Security responded so quickly and coordinated the crackdown in every city.

However, because the NSA spied on many other countries with this program, the fallout to the US will have economic consequences as the rest of the world changes its posture against us. Something that liberals like myself might have easily told the Obama and Bush Administrations and the NSA. Now, if a schmuck like me could foresee that problem, why couldn't the geniuses in the Obama and Bush Administration and the NSA see it?

By the way, Snowden only worked as a contractor for three months, and they seem to have entrusted him with very damaging information. That's not encouraging about how well these programs were run.