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In reply to the discussion: O... M... G... [View all]AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)132. Because nobody in the media bothered to talk about it much, when Bush was in office.
This stuff about NSA spying, or at least the most important stuff that they made the biggest hullabaloo over, was available back in 2006-07 if one knew where to look.
In fact it cost him a decent paying job, comfortable life and girl friend in Hawaii.
Something had to lure him out of the country. And given the kind of guy that he is, that should be one of the first things to look for.....but the media's had their heads so far up their asses, that few people have bothered to really look, as far as it can be seen(though I'd suspect that there might have been a coverup of some kind, anyhow.).
Snowden didn't do what he did to make Obama look bad.
Plenty of evidence suggests otherwise. His support of Ron Paul, alone, and his past anti-liberal comments should be a pair of *major* red flags in and of themselves, not to mention the fact that he flew straight to China with this info in hand, during a major diplomatic summit, no less, which is another major red flag.
When I read your posts on this subject, I see another that is Willfully Blind.
And frankly, pal, I could say the same exact same thing about you. But unlike you, I'd actually be spot on.....SMH.
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Who decided that making a megalomaniacal whack job head of the NSA was a good idea?
truebluegreen
Sep 2013
#2
My guess is that it's the Carlyle Group. Who do you think put him in power?
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#127
Alexander seems Too Good to Be True! He captured a Young President with "Star Wars!"
KoKo
Sep 2013
#18
My feelings are the money would have been Much better spent in hiring federal employees
adirondacker
Sep 2013
#52
Yes! The list is endless at present. Instead we're given more privitazation of Public interests
adirondacker
Sep 2013
#126
Perfect for a swaggering, overbearing, tin-plated dictator with delusions of godhood....
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2013
#24
Because actual reasons for opposing Alexander are dull and detailed. Easier to get page hits...
JHB
Sep 2013
#94
Yeah... And Junior Air Marshall Alexander Can Use His Decoder Ring To Get Dates..
WillyT
Sep 2013
#71
The design of that room is symptomatic of the problems of the NSA that Snowden exposed.
RC
Sep 2013
#72
Snowden didn't expose SHIT. This stuff covering the NSA was available years ago.
AverageJoe90
Sep 2013
#124
The why didn't anyone know about the excesses and unconstitutional spying the NSA was doing?
RC
Sep 2013
#130
Because nobody in the media bothered to talk about it much, when Bush was in office.
AverageJoe90
Sep 2013
#132
".....so as to not be put in prison and possibly tortured as Manning was." Bullshit.
AverageJoe90
Sep 2013
#134
First you must understand who he is accountable to. It isnt to the President.
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#128
This looks so much like the lab in Dr. Strangelove. Too bad George C. Scott isn't around
Doctor_J
Sep 2013
#100
Meanwhile most Public School Teachers, also public employees, have to buy their own
Doctor_J
Sep 2013
#98
Crazy....though I don't think he understood the whole point of Star Trek in the first place.......nt
AverageJoe90
Sep 2013
#119