Snowden's Dad: If Edward Would Have Stayed In the USA: "He would have been buried under the capital"

[ljm2002]

33. Yes, he could have done that...

...but really, what is the likelihood that the information about all this would have become public? Even Rand Paul is under rules that don't allow him to speak publicly about certain things, and we all know that Congress is highly unlikely to have initiated a discussion of the broad scope of these laws and how they are applied. That just would not have happened. There would have been closed hearings, a dog and pony show for the open hearing, and... nothing or next to nothing would have happened. At most, there would have been some tsk tsking by Congress on "overreach" by "some agents" and a couple of new regulations added and ta da! that would be the end of it.

Oh, except for prosecuting Snowden. You can be sure that would have happened, judging by what we have seen happen to previous whistle blowers in the intelligence area.