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In reply to the discussion: Maher to Greenwald: Every Time Snowden Speaks, 'He Always Says Something F*cking Nuts' [View all]brush
(61,033 posts)Is this stuff over your head?
It's not that hard. Snowden should have stuck to releasing info on the domestic info gathering.
Exposing the intricacies of international info gathering bordering on sedition, maybe even treason. Maybe that's why he defected.
You may not like the word but that's what he is now.
And check my posts, no conservative here. I just know that releasing information on the international covert operations of the country is best not decided by a naive twenty-nine-year-old possibly influenced by an ambitious journalist who has turned his big scoop into backing for his own news organization.
Greenwald is doing okay for himself as Snowden, stranded in Russia and pinning to come back, fades in his rearview mirror.
Open your eyes. Snowden, who just a couple of years ago was spouting Libertarian talking points, and Greenwald, a known Libertarian as well as an opportunist, are no heros. If they had stopped at releasing the domestic info gathering I'd be touting them both as whistle blowing heroes myself but they blew it with the international stuff.