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Blue_Tires

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42. Shouldn't surprise anyone
Sat Apr 26, 2014, 08:58 PM
Apr 2014

they just had the biggest and most embarrassing intelligence breach in decades...What did they think was going to happen? That the NSA was going to open the floodgates all of a sudden?

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Kick.... daleanime Apr 2014 #1
I'm glad they aren't overreacting. NT clg311 Apr 2014 #2
V was supposed to be fiction. L0oniX Apr 2014 #4
Our government obviously has something to hide ...from US citizens! ... L0oniX Apr 2014 #3
You said it, Loonix....I just finished ballyhoo Apr 2014 #18
So true....but will the fact that most of us are aware stop them from such criminal behavior.. AuntPatsy Apr 2014 #30
And since the NSA is monitoring everybody... Helen Borg Apr 2014 #5
kick grasswire Apr 2014 #6
Well, if the govenment has nothing to hide it needn't worry about Snowdens. Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2014 #7
Brilliant. Obnoxious_One Apr 2014 #14
The audacity of Gen Clapper and the NSA/CIA/FBI should be a warning. rhett o rick Apr 2014 #8
Yep. nt awoke_in_2003 Apr 2014 #11
Wait wut? I've been reliably informed here on DU that Snowden's "news" wasn't new riderinthestorm Apr 2014 #9
This makes me curtain that Obama is not running the show blackspade Apr 2014 #10
So well said. The Stazi has formed ballyhoo Apr 2014 #12
Clearly this is intended to help protect future whistleblowers. Obnoxious_One Apr 2014 #13
Who is 'silencing' Snowden? Has there been a film festival, Ted conference, or press conference msanthrope Apr 2014 #15
Not to me, among ballyhoo Apr 2014 #17
I agree, because the US is overpopulated and Russia has LOTS of room. 11 Bravo Apr 2014 #19
And lots of resources. But ballyhoo Apr 2014 #21
The OP didn't say Snowden had been silenced. Comrade Grumpy Apr 2014 #24
actually--having read the directive, I don't have a problem with these rules: msanthrope Apr 2014 #26
The OP doesn't say that Snowden is being silenced. Vattel Apr 2014 #41
Backfiring? ConservativeDemocrat Apr 2014 #16
Occasionaly makes mistakes? To the tune of millions of dead people? Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2014 #20
+10,000 ballyhoo Apr 2014 #22
Yep, + 10,000 n/t truedelphi Apr 2014 #28
You think the U.S. killed millions of people? ConservativeDemocrat Apr 2014 #43
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, ring any bells? Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2014 #45
You forgot to throw in the NAZIs ConservativeDemocrat Apr 2014 #48
America, Love it or Leave it? You could trying be more original. Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2014 #50
More like, America - don't lie about it ConservativeDemocrat Apr 2014 #51
I'm angry at those nations who justify killing and do so. Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2014 #52
Peace in our time, then. ConservativeDemocrat Apr 2014 #53
'Anti-Americans' KG Apr 2014 #23
Senator Joe, is that you? Maybe you can form a committee on the anti-Americans. Comrade Grumpy Apr 2014 #25
+1000 nt Mojorabbit Apr 2014 #46
THEY HATE US FER OUR FREEDOMS!!!! JoeyT Apr 2014 #27
Reality based community? G_j Apr 2014 #49
DC Inner Elite has cannibaized that old maxim: truedelphi Apr 2014 #29
How many reading this seriously believe the same programs are being used in Thinkingabout Apr 2014 #31
Between Snowden and the NSA? ballyhoo Apr 2014 #32
You really think so, huh. Thinkingabout Apr 2014 #33
I'll wait for the third interview to evaluate. I don't do anything ballyhoo Apr 2014 #36
Everybody to their own speed. Thinkingabout Apr 2014 #38
Saw the original story and thought it was a parody. CLAPPER silencing EVERYONE now! sabrina 1 Apr 2014 #34
It's mounting desperation. I think there may ballyhoo Apr 2014 #37
K&R! This post should have hundreds of recommendations! Enthusiast Apr 2014 #35
K&R. We need a hundred more Snowdens to step forward heroically, and expose this spying nonsense quinnox Apr 2014 #39
That has really always been the policy. MineralMan Apr 2014 #40
Most private firms, government agencies, etc., have similar "you can't talk to the press" policies stevenleser Apr 2014 #44
Shouldn't surprise anyone Blue_Tires Apr 2014 #42
kick. Thanks for posting. +1 eom Purveyor Apr 2014 #47
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