Snowden is a hero

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97. Do not agree

I've always thought, and have posted many times on these Snowden threads that his revelations of domestic info gathering, while not completely new (PRISM started under Cheney/Bush and was reported previously without getting much traction) did a service to the country and 4th Admendment rights.

But he seemed naive and at the same narcissistic in wanting everyone to know that he was the one revealing all the information gathering — he was advised that he could do it another way without giving up his whole life.

His real mistake though, IMO, was going too far in revealing details of his own country's international covert operations.

Here's something else that someone posted on another site:

"How freakin' long is it going to take for folks to realize Snowden is, was, and has always been a patsy? 

This wasn't a MISTAKE. Good god. Operatives the world 'round work day and night to recruit naive idiots in security positions like Snowden."

Snowden worked for the CIA in Switzerland before he hooked on with Dell, then Booz Allen. He could have been worked/turned there, or in Asia when he visited there before defecting with the "appropriated files".

Here's yet another take on the Putin Q&A:

"That's it in a nutshell -- as Shoeone wrote: "In asking his idiotic question, Snowden served Putin well, and punched his ticket for another year of" temporary" asylum."

I think as the saga unfolds people are beginning to get the full picture of who Snowden really is — most likely a naive yet narcissistic computer geek who got in way over his head and was used by journalists hungry for a scoop, and is now being used by Putin.