Russia: Snowden can stay

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127. But what about Snowden divulging intricacies of our international . . .

covert operations?

The following paragraph is from another post by struggleforprogress:

"Snowden noted matter-of-factly that Standard Form 312, the ­classified-information nondisclosure
agreement, is a civil contract. He signed it ..."

I myself have contended all along that if Snowden had limited his actions to the domestic sphere I'd also be calling him a hero because the NSA needs to butt out of US citizens' business.

It surprises me that those who call themselves progressives can't see the difference between the good service done by Snowden in revealing the domestic info gathering and the harm done to the country by revealing how and what the country is doing internationally to intercept information that could prevent damage to our country.

There are two entirely different issues here that shouldn't be that hard to differentiate.

IMO, divulging intricacies of our international covert operations is not something that should be left to a somewhat naive 29-year-old who seems to have not thought his actions through. He seemingly was manipulated by Greenwald, who has now parlayed the stolen info into a lucrative deal to start his own media empire, while poor Snowden is now stranded in Russia and pinning to come home. There's a reason why one has to be at least 35-years-old to run for president as you will have hopefully, with more life experience and mature judgement, learned to think things through to the possible consequences of one's actions, something Snowden obviously didn't do or he wouldn't be stuck in "Putin's paradise".

And another thing, what business is it of he and Greenwald to revealed covert operations of Australia in Indonesia? They also released that info. That's a mouth-opening WTF?