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In reply to the discussion: Snowden Is No Traitor. What He EXPOSED Is What's TREASON. [View all]ucrdem
(15,512 posts)165. Are patriotic slogans and cartoons all that's left of NSA-gate?
Or is that all there ever was? Snowden didn't expose any treason, that's clear. He exposed a perfectly legal warrant and a legally meaningless PowerPoint. If, however, he also shared classified US information with the Chinese, as both he and Chinese media have claimed, he certainly is a traitor. And he betrayed the US because he hates Obama and everything Obama stands for.
Not exactly hero material in my book but no accounting for tastes.
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JFK mentioned 'prosperity and peace' in his 1963 State of the Union address...
Octafish
Jul 2013
#205
Tell that to most of the world who are up in arms about it. It was new to them.
Mojorabbit
Jul 2013
#4
That's right, he "stole intel and ran." Never mind the wholesale domestic spying part. Right?
PSPS
Jul 2013
#7
it's a shame, dems backing extended surveillance on citizens. smh. all in the name of the party...
allin99
Jul 2013
#203
Great To See The Blatant Acceptance Of Mass US Surveillance And The Desecration of The 4th Amendment
cantbeserious
Jul 2013
#13
'Snowden is what the Government gets for failing to provide working whistleblowing pathways
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#45
Yeah, I said fuck that shit and said what I had to say the way I wanted to say it.
DevonRex
Jul 2013
#95
Yeah... I thought it was too rude, like the things you said up-thread to that other poster.
Marr
Jul 2013
#209
When i said explain your post now? or when i called snowden a lying motherfucker?
DevonRex
Jul 2013
#210
Manning is the reason for Snowden. Not a good idea to bring up Manning in this conversation.
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#48
Sabrina, Snowden will be lucky not to wind up in a gulag or worse in Russia. nt
DevonRex
Jul 2013
#58
Snowden did make YOU "aware of anything that we didnt know was already happening" because you have
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#149
Oh, yes. By all means, let's "arrest Snowden" and that will make domestic spying OK! Yeah!
PSPS
Jul 2013
#5
There is evidence that Snowden committed crimes and he has publically admitted it.
Tx4obama
Jul 2013
#8
you claim the nsa needs to collect massive amounts of meta-data to prevent such events..
frylock
Jul 2013
#135
It is not an opinion on the collection of data by the NSA, they obtained the warrants
Thinkingabout
Jul 2013
#36
Great To See THe Blatant Disregard Of US Malfeasance And The Desecration Of The Constitution
cantbeserious
Jul 2013
#14
He did not bring harm to our country. Our country benefits from knowing the information
totodeinhere
Jul 2013
#49
I agree...+1. What some don't understand is that in the U.S. our allegiance is to
snappyturtle
Jul 2013
#90
The actions of Snowden is unconscionable. When you spy and lie and this seems to fit his
Thinkingabout
Jul 2013
#42
Secret Government is an issue that cuts across ideological, party and class lines like nothing else.
Octafish
Jul 2013
#204
Given how primed the tea party is for Snowden's actions, there is nothing I admire about him.
SleeplessinSoCal
Jul 2013
#50
If that should happen, and I hope it doesn't because I regard Edward Snowden
snappyturtle
Jul 2013
#41
Well this will bring out the pro spying, US gov can do no wrong, attack the messeger, it's the law
L0oniX
Jul 2013
#33
He's just a useful dupe for BushInc, Octafish. Sorry, but the 'coincidences' on the
blm
Jul 2013
#47
My Friend, where did I say Obama was no different than Bush? On this or any other thread?
Octafish
Jul 2013
#62
He didn't just expose US internal surveillance. He crossed the line into espionage
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#68
We already KNEW about it years ago, Oct. Snowden isn't pointing one finger at BFEE - he's walking
blm
Jul 2013
#131
Actually, Oct, Obama DID propose a budget requiring wealthy to pay more, requiring
blm
Jul 2013
#198
Still amazed that so many here can't see the level of slickness to the 'rollout' of
blm
Jul 2013
#188
Ironic that the ones who are pro-Snowden are being used by Bush Inc., the very
DevonRex
Jul 2013
#65
No way. There's never been an outcome where Dems gained from being viewed as no different
blm
Jul 2013
#85
They don't. They use the GOP as a vehicle. The Bushes are fascists - pure and simple.
blm
Jul 2013
#96
Disclosing classified national security information to foreign powers is treason.
shawn703
Jul 2013
#64
No evidence of that propaganda talking point. It is all distraction from
woo me with science
Jul 2013
#72
Authoritarian governments always use laws about secrecy to defend abuses of power.
woo me with science
Jul 2013
#162
Totalitarian governments always use treason as an excuse to silence their critics. n/t
totodeinhere
Jul 2013
#79
Governments abusing secrecy laws to conceal crime and repression from the people is treason. n/t
backscatter712
Jul 2013
#84
Purely projection in it's purest form, it's Ibsens ' An Enemy of the people '
orpupilofnature57
Jul 2013
#80
Snowden's not scary - he's just been a useful tool for those who manipulated this outcome.
blm
Jul 2013
#101
Nope - I think it's Jeb2016 benefitting from the Obama is no different than Bush scenario.
blm
Jul 2013
#117
If it's old news and it's still happening, what good did leaking it do the first time around?
NuclearDem
Jul 2013
#137
But why didnt you all hold senate hearings on this issue? or write OpEds in major newspapers?
bobduca
Jul 2013
#192
That's the point I've been making. It was institutionalized by Congress in 2006 and
blm
Jul 2013
#202
Ahahahahahahaha and the Manning leaks were going to get AMERICANS KILLED!!11
NuclearDem
Jul 2013
#129
Running to foreign countries ant telling them details makes him a traitor
liberal N proud
Jul 2013
#112