Give Edward Snowden the Same Deal General Petraeus Got for Leaking Info

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77. you dismiss the spying, saying everyone does it

...but you inflate Snowden's revelations as some major betrayal. You've not provided one piece of evidence that 'Snowden's helping China defeat US intelligence efforts,' just hyper-inflated rhetoric designed to cast him as a traitor.

And you call my posts 'performance art.' Your own are reflective of all of the sly misinformation on Snowden put out by our government, embarrassed by revelations of their own abuses and crimes. You studiously avoid discussing those - inflating info Snowden revealed of what the US is doing - claiming to be unsurprised by it, in one instance, then outraged about revelations about it in another.


NSA cyber spying on China not a surprise, but it's not ho-hum, either

___Snowden said the documents reveal the agency has been hacking computers in mainland China and Hong Kong since 2009. They show, he said, specific dates and IP addresses of computers in Hong Kong and on mainland China hacked by the NSA over a four-year period – all civilian computers that show no sign of being affiliated with Chinese military systems.

"I don't know what specific information they were looking for on these machines, only that using technical exploits to gain unauthorized access to civilian machines is a violation of law. It's ethically dubious," Snowden said in the South China Morning Post interview published Friday.

Snowden also claimed that the NSA has conducted more than 61,000 hacking operations worldwide, according to Wednesday editions of the South China Morning Post. He disclosed the information, he said, to show “the hypocrisy of the US government when it claims that it does not target civilian infrastructure, unlike its adversaries.”

"The primary issue of public importance to Hong Kong and mainland China should be that the NSA is illegally seizing the communications of tens of millions of individuals without any individualized suspicion of wrongdoing," Snowden elaborated in the Morning Post interview that appeared Friday online. "They simply steal everything so they can search for any topics of interest."

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2013/0614/NSA-cyber-spying-on-China-not-a-surprise-but-it-s-not-ho-hum-either-video