Why Edward Snowden Belongs in Prison

[JonLP24]

52. Naive would be to buying what government officials say

or that they are keeping us safe.

Naive as far as Snowden would be to dump this on the nearest news station or even worse flying to NYC and walking into the Fox News building with it. Naive would be "here it is now lock me up under the Espionage Act". He took a bold & calculated risk, did he make mistakes on the along way, it would be hard not to but considering the circumstances.

I will say he was naive when he joined these various impressive government jobs he became disillusioned quickly because he didn't see it for what it is and I didn't even have those jobs and know they aren't as honorable as cracked up to be.

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Mr. Snowden, a native of North Carolina, told The Guardian that he signed up in 2003 for an Army Special Forces training program because he wanted to fight in Iraq.

“I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression,” he said.

“Most of the people training us seemed pumped up about killing Arabs, not helping anyone,” he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/us/former-cia-worker-says-he-leaked-surveillance-data.html

Same thing with joining then quitting the CIA though many people will doubt the story, the ones with diplomatic cover do most of the spying US, Russian or otherwise or the risky stuff such as recruiting, kidnapping, etc while somebody unofficial without an official designation -- like DEA -- wouldn't do something that would blow their cover.

I'm sure Snowden is well aware of the spy world than any of us here, really, but it is ugly all the way around & should stop trying to find out everyone's secrets when we are so concerned about our own.