NSA says Snowden e-mails exempt from public disclosure and secret

[LondonReign2]

264. Look Nance, I know you to be a very smart person

I can't imagine that in all honesty you believe those threads were posted for any reason other than to try to discredit Snowden. The sole reason to post those derisive articles was to try to assassinate Snowden's character in an attempt to bury the NSA spying scandal. They were without question an attempt impugn him. There were multiple threads trying to attack Snowden for his girlfriend, on multiple fronts, whether it was inferred she was a stripper or whether it was that Snowden had "abandoned" her. Making believe that they were anything other than attacks begs belief.

Here, I suspect, is the real problem: In the first days after the NSA spying revelations, some people were concerned how this would reflect on the President and determined to attempt to discredit Snowden. Some of the early attempts were astonishingly ill-conceived and were rightfully meet with immediate mocking and derision. The boxes and pole-dancer memes were spawned.

Those were the first, clownish attempts. As I said in my first post, they are no longer used by the anti-Snowden crowd because they are so embarrassing. Likewise, they are used anti-NSA crowd precisely because they are embarrassing--to the anti-Snowden crowd. It shows to exactly what lengths they would go, albeit ineptly, to try protect Obama. I suspect the anti-Snowden crowd doesn't like it brought up for precisely this reason and wish any such reference would be dropped.

Nonetheless, those threads were started by the anti-Snowden crowd in amateurish attempts to discredit him. To argue otherwise is simply intellectually dishonest. The fact that they didn't continue to use these points of attack after being so severely slapped down is hardly surprising.