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In reply to the discussion: the idiotic attacks on Snowden show exactly how petty and pathetic those folks are [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)It's the programs they are interested in exposing. And, by exposing the programs that affect all the people they are spying on here in the USA and all over the world...that hopefully the security can be fixed so that companies are not scooping up private information on citizens and storing it indefintely in these giant warehouses that are being built by the NSA to store everything we write and post on line (including on social media) and DU.
Check out the link I gave you which gives info about the worst of this starting after "9/11" and Bush so you will see this isn't about Obama but about the NSA Spying on Citizens that Obama hasn't been able to stop and in fact that these agencies who are payed with taxpayer money are almost going Rogue in contracting out the information they collect on us to Private Companies now (who aren't accountable to Govt. Oversight)...which is how Snowden got his info and why he was so upset that he started to document it.
He wasn't interested in OUTING PEOPLE but the SYSTEMS in our Government and Private Companies who were abusing Power by targeting ALL OF US!
Please see the link from EFF that I posted to you for info below in this thread.