Like It or Not, Glenn Greenwald Is Now the Face of the 1st Amendment

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204. I'm sorry, I totally missed that. But what could Rand Paul do?

I don't think you are watching the same movie as the rest of the folks in the theater.

A real senator, one with many years of seniority, has been squealing for years about how Congress is gagged from speaking out on this subject. Of course I'm talking about Senator Ron Wyden.

I honestly don't understand why you think Rand Paul could do anything. I guess that by law he would have to have Snowden arrested or something, and it would legally have to be done in total secrecy, or at least in a manner that protected the classified information from being made public.

I don't get what you think would have happened if he were to have gone to a senator with this. Even had he gone to a senator such as Wyden, who already knew all this stuff and was legally cleared to have this information, there's nothing that the senator could do. Is there?

Senator Wyden was forced to watch administration officials commit perjury right to his face, and still he was barred from mentioning it to anyone publicly. The actual fact that these guys were publicly lying to Congress WAS the classified information that they didn't want to be made public. Snowden saw the exact same thing and decided to do his duty. And yes, it was his duty. It's not even a close call.

I don't think you really understand what Snowden accomplished. That would certainly explain why your opinions seem so strange to me.