"This issue has heated up again, due to Kerrys unfortunate remarks. That said - it seems like for a significant number of people on both sides of the debate, you need to pick one over the other. You need to join a tribe - either the tribe that supports Snowden and Greenwald or the tribe that supports Obama. "
...Kerry's comments "heated" things up again is because Snowden fans expected his claims to go unchallenged by anyone with the stature to do so. Kerry's statements were similar to what many other Democrats have said.
Snowden is the coward
Expecting any administration official to coddle Snowden is letting a bias get the best of logic
Snowden and his lawyers know he broke the law. Snowden knows the extent of the information he took, as he admitted tonight. He screwed uu. He's a fugitive. He's not some fragile kid, and no one should expect that he'd be treated with kid gloves.
It's interesting to see Kerry being thrown under a bus for calling out a self-confessed spy who stole government documents (some admittedly damaging) and fled the country. What did people expect Kerry to say?
Demanding or suggesting he return to the U.S. to be held accountable is not unusual. Kerry has earned the right to make that call.
Like it or not, Snowden dug himself into a deeper hole with last night's interview.
During the interview, he sounded like an idiot and most of his claims were absurd. I mean, the fool admitted, in his own words, that he took damaging information and distributed it and the only thing he has as a defense is that the recipients promised not to reveal the information.
9) Snowden didn’t deny turning over secrets that would be damaging or harmful. He only said journalists have a deal with him not to do it. Just a reminder: we really have no idea how many reporters or organizations have copies of the documents or the total number of documents (it’s a Greenwald/Snowden secret), but we do know that Snowden documents have been reported by so many publications that the question arises: who doesn’t have Snowden documents?
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