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In reply to the discussion: Al Gore: NSA's Law-Breaking Worse Than Snowden's - USNews [View all]NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)64. Very even handed and level response.
Both have violated the law. Ones violation is more grave than the other. So simple yet very difficult for some.
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Good. All the more reason for Snowden to come back and face the music. He has a viable defense. nt
msanthrope
Jun 2014
#6
I'm Sure When The Attorney's Involved Strike Some Sort Of Iron-Clad Deal, He Will...
WillyT
Jun 2014
#7
No--they won't. He will have to submit himself to custody before a deal can be
msanthrope
Jun 2014
#8
You said that already. I'm sure Gore, intelligent as he is, knows why Whistle Blowers can no longer
sabrina 1
Jun 2014
#39
If you witness a crime in action, should you remain silent because there is a law that
sabrina 1
Jun 2014
#43
No, he cannot. And if you don't that, you haven't been following the issue of how Whistle Blowers
sabrina 1
Jun 2014
#58
I prefer to ask those who have experienced what happens to Whistle Blowers here. Manning was
sabrina 1
Jun 2014
#60
I didn't see where he said 'Snowden is not a hero'. He said this in response to the
sabrina 1
Jun 2014
#42
I wouldn't expect him to call him a hero, but unlike Kerry eg, he does not view him as a traitor
sabrina 1
Jun 2014
#46
He did not leave the country with classified information. He took nothing with him.
sabrina 1
Jun 2014
#57
I think those who genuinely want the truth, take the trouble to get the facts, willy.
sabrina 1
Jun 2014
#65
On the contrary, he is joining a growing number of respected Americans who care deeply about the
sabrina 1
Jun 2014
#45
I continue to be fascinated by DU posters that insist on focusing on the small crime
Maedhros
Jun 2014
#16
A total surveillance nation is cancer to democracy and combined with Citizens United,
Uncle Joe
Jun 2014
#27
Not to mention this, which dropped like a rock for some reason, possibly because
Uncle Joe
Jun 2014
#32
That's what they are fighting so hard for, to keep that money flowing into this fake, we know that
sabrina 1
Jun 2014
#66
Maybe not all of them, but enough apparently to keep the scam going. That is what has to change.
sabrina 1
Jun 2014
#69
Me three, but Gore also said this, which by the way isn't texted or bolded on your OP. This is
Uncle Joe
Jun 2014
#31
Absolutely WillyT, we need more voices of course, yet Gore's was a very important one.
Jefferson23
Jun 2014
#54
Al Gore doesn't understand that it's only metadata and that only Papa Paul Loving Libertarians are
neverforget
Jun 2014
#56