EUGENE ROBINSON: America Should Thank Snowden For Revealing NSA Snooping

[sofa king]

136. God damn it, WE ALREADY KNEW!!!

Every single damned one of you who has been reading DU has seen MORE information than was "revealed" by Snowden in the years 2005-2009.

I have yet to see a single disclosure from Snowden that was not previously reported right the hell here.

There is a very, very dangerous deception afoot, here. The Snowden disclosures are being repeatedly bashed over the heads of the American public to make them forget that all of Snowden's disclosures were previously reported, more or less as it happened, while the Bush Administration feloniously expanded domestic spying and lied about it.

There is a reason for that, and I'm pretty sure it has to do with the fact that the Bush Administration used NSA to read all of John Kerry's plans in the 2004 election.

The only way you can allow yourselves to believe that Snowden's revelations are new and important is if you also allow yourselves to believe that the Bush Administration was telling the truth when they lied their asses off to all of us, every day, for years, and destroyed any journalist who dared to contradict them.