Edward Snowden offers to help Brazil over US spying in return for asylum

[BlueCaliDem]

39. Yeah, but only the most diehard pro-Snowden people

who share the same fears of our government that Republicans do, believe that to be the case.

I'd trust our gov't any day over some anti-gov't Libertarian who in January 2009 stated that leakers to the press "should be shot in the balls". And he stated this after eight years of tyranny by pResident Cheney - I mean, GW Bush.

I guess Snowden believes that it was a-ok for America to spy on other countries and wiretap American citizens just as long a war-mongering Republican President was in the WH.

And then a Black man and a Democrat won the presidency in 2008, and in January 2009 Snowden's "views" changed: (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/26/four-years-ago-ed-snowden-thought-leakers-should-be-shot/)

Snowden says he got "hardened" later in 2009 as he "watched as Obama advanced the very policies that I thought would be reined in." He now believes the government's spying programs pose "an existential threat to democracy."

I wonder what really "hardened" him. I mean, under the Bush Admin, he didn't seem to have a problem with a secretive government, did he? In fact, he defended them.

But he did a 180 since that Marxist, Socialist, Communist Muslim Black guy won the White House and became our president.

I know he's seen as some unblemished hero by some on this site, but I don't, I can't, and I won't. Ever. Despite his seemingly noble mission, he's a hypocrite of the first order and I can't help but wonder what his agenda really is.