Here's Why Snowden Plea Negotiations Are Going Nowhere

[MADem]

8. Good article--amazing how "surveilled" people are on a day-to-day basis without any NSA help.

Those smart phones and apps and corporate interests are too clever by half. It's not just corporate interests--it's hackers, and jealous spouses too.

I have a dumb phone--I'm sure my dull texts aren't nearly as exciting as all the info on those smart devices. I have never had an expectation of privacy on the internet, either.

I don't think Snowden can overcome his non-disclosure agreement. Had he gone to his buddy Rand Paul, sure--Rand could have saved him, because a Senator can't be prosecuted for anything he says on the Senate floor. But giving his material to people all over the world not cleared to have it? He's America's 21st Century Kim Philby, trapped in a "I'll Really Give You Something To Cry About" country, dependent on the good offices of Innkeeper Vlad. He wants to come home, he said--but he'll have to do it by way of the federal prison system, or not at all.