The ACLU and others have been trying to redefine the term whistleblower to include Snowden.

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68. And YOUR blind spot is that you continue to ignore what he provided us!

He provided us PROOF in documentation that there was blanket spying on all of us (at least with one document on all Verizon customers that probably is replicated for other phone service carriers). That gives us the ability to *HAVE STANDING* so that we can *GO TO COURT* and find out what exactly the NSA and other entities are doing in terms of spying on people without cause against their constitutional rights given to all of us by the 4th amendment!

Again YOU are projecting that we are hung up on Snowden when it is YOU who are hung up on him and trying to make everything point to him instead of the information he provided us! Did you go through a proxy server today so that Skinner couldn't see that you are coming in from the NSA?... He seemed to be saying that there were a number of posts demonizing Snowden, etc. from there.

Russ Tice was basically saying the same thing about warrantless spying many years back when Bush was in office. And yes, he was a Republican. He didn't have the "proof" documents and only what he said then, which is why it didn't go anywhere then, in addition to complicit Democrats wanting to "move forward" and not investigate Bush, Cheney, and those in charge then. Why would Tice do this if only bringing down the president and the president's party is a motivation for what he and Snowden have done? Can't you see that he as well as Snowden might have been giving us this information as a way they perceived to serve this country and its citizens' rights and not to play partisan politics?