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Showing Original Post only (View all)Snowden's Dad: If Edward Would Have Stayed In the USA: "He would have been buried under the capital" [View all]
Last edited Mon Aug 12, 2013, 02:02 PM - Edit history (1)
UPDATE TO ADD:
People who are secretly breaking the 4th amendment to the hilt have no business calling a man who blew the whistle on them a traitor and railroading him for reporting their guilty secrets.
added, because, EVERYONE should read the transcript:
(not break into small groups for/against)
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/week-transcript-lon-snowden-donald-trump/storynew?id=19926953&page=3
STEPHANOPOULOS: You don't think he would have been protected by the whistle blower status?
SNOWDEN: Absolutely not.
And maybe at some point, we should go through that. You know, just hypothetically, let's imagine that Edward Snowden said, wow, there's a problem -- let's say he got on an airline in Honolulu and he chose to fly to Washington, D.C., lands at Dulles and he actually gets an audience with, oh, let's say, Peter King or Dianne Feinstein, how do we think that he would have been received if he had a private audience with them? We have seen how they reacted, even when the truth comes out, they spin the truth, they try to hide it from the American people. He would have been buried under the capital. And we would have never known the truth.
FULL TRANSCRIPT:
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/week-transcript-lon-snowden-donald-trump/storynew?id=19926953&page=2
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Snowden's Dad: If Edward Would Have Stayed In the USA: "He would have been buried under the capital" [View all]
kpete
Aug 2013
OP
Edward Snowden is a modern day Paul Revere with a thumb drive full of news that Tyranny is coming!
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Aug 2013
#60
He wouldn't have been protected because he didn't bother to become a whistleblower.
msanthrope
Aug 2013
#2
2005 is irrelevant, ant the Tamm case is irrelevant because the programs themselves had not
JDPriestly
Aug 2013
#61
And here is why I object to the surveillance programs no matter who runs them
JDPriestly
Aug 2013
#119
It does protect contractors. What it does not protect is release to the public--Snowden would have
msanthrope
Aug 2013
#13
Even if it is procured illegally by th egovernment? Even if it runs afoul of the 4th Amendment?
RC
Aug 2013
#103
Yes, he should have done what Drake and Binney did. Drake followed the rules to the last letter and
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#37
Doesn't Greenwald also have a financial interest in the movie that filmmaker is crafting? nt
MADem
Aug 2013
#31
Well, he could have disclosed under the Intelligence Community Whistleblowers Protection Act of 1998
msanthrope
Aug 2013
#14
Some secrets should be secret. Reasonable people can disagree about what those secrets are, but
msanthrope
Aug 2013
#22
Of course, history clearly shows how our government feels about whistleblowers. n/t
1awake
Aug 2013
#32
Like Drake did? How did that work for him?? Drake 'disclosed under the ICWP Act of 1998
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#41
How about Drake and Binney? They did everything according to the book and were destroyed
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#43
And this is why we need to encourage aggressive use of the ignore function.
backscatter712
Aug 2013
#72
It's Communist in name only. Actually it has the second largest capitalist
totodeinhere
Aug 2013
#65
I did not deny that they have a Communist party. What I am saying is that they
totodeinhere
Aug 2013
#126
If Edward had performed on his job and had nit stolen files and revealed information
Thinkingabout
Aug 2013
#130