Why did it take a Democratic administration for Snowden to become a dissident?

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148. You wanna talk about the spying . . .

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Ok, Snowden re-revealed that NSA was collecting info domestically. I say re-revealed because this whole NSA-info-gathering story had already been revealed back in 2007 but no one paid attention (It was sort of like Columbus being given credit for discovering America when the Native Americans had already discovered it centuries earlier).

Anyway no one paid attention before — maybe because in Bush/Chaney time it was ok because we were at war and he was a "War President", whatever the hell that meant. And some of his henchmen were even telling people to keep their mouth shut and not criticize the president when we were at war. And people did, including Snowden.

And then suddenly there was a black president and now in Snowden's mind this whole NSA-info-gathering needed to be revealed again. AND THE DOMESTIC PART OF IT, HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT THAT, but what business is it of Snowden's to reveal Australian v Indonesia covert operations, or the fact that British agents used the "honey trap" tactic, or that we — drum roll please — spied on other countries (I myself am still "shocked, shocked that spying is going on in this establishment" — pardon paraphrasing of Louie from Casablanca).

But seriously, St. Eddie went way over the line when he and Greenwald began revealing, trickle-by-trickle style, apparently to prolong their 15 minutes, the intricacies of our and other nations' international covert operations.

I say again, WHAT BUSINESS IS IT OF HIS TO REVEAL THESE SECRETS? THOSE ARE NOT HIS DECISIONS TO MAKE.

Is that enough talking about the spy stuff. A non-elected, somewhat naive, 29-year-old should not be the one deciding to reveal our or other countries' covert operations.