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In reply to the discussion: I am getting the odd sense that some don't like Snowden because he made the establishment look bad [View all]phleshdef
(11,936 posts)Snowden LOVED the big government national security apparatus when Bush was President, but when a black center left guy becomes President, he makes his way into classified information and then runs off to other countries to pass the information out like candy at Halloween.
If Snowden had went to Senator or Congressman who would be sympathetic to his so called concerns and did things the right way, I'd not have much I could say about it. But no, he went on foreign soil and launched an all out attack to make a name for himself. And then he turned around and gave those countries classified information regarding our counter-espionage efforts with said countries.
But prior to all that, he was pro-government secrecy and wanted leakers to be "shot in the balls" and wanted media outlets who reported anything resembling a leak to go bankrupt. So I don't buy into the notion that he gives one fuck about privacy or the 4th amendment or any of that. He did this to make the Obama administration look bad, simply because he didn't like who was President of it. He has no actual principles. He is right wing tool who played games with our foreign relations in order to hurt a President that he didn't like.