Please. Snowden is a Russian spy. The FSB turned him, and got him to steal NSA methods both for their intelligence value and for their propaganda value. Greenwald has always been a sick puppy, and queers in the West have always been soft target for the Russian spy agencies. If what you really want is to protect Americans’ civil liberties, you don’t give top secret information to Vladimir Putin, you give it to Rand Paul.
Whether Snowden was a soviet agent or asset is immaterial. The unconstitutional spying on Americans simply made US intelligence more vulnerable to undermining by foreign agencies. That risk in itself should have given the US government pause in violating the trust of the American people. But it didn’t.
Nor does his revelation about the spying program mitigate any crimes he may have committed by giving legitimate secrets to foreign governments.
A question… just who keeps our spy agencies and police honest?
If they do it themselves you and I know they will become corrupt. That is just the nature of mankind. All power does corrupt, and absolute power with no review corrupts absolutely.
So you have to have some mechanism to keep them in fear. Leaks are the mechanism.
But nowdays they punish the leakers as much as they can to limit the exposure.
May 18th, 2014 at 10:37 pm
We are ruled by criminals. They’re also known as POLITICIANS.
May 19th, 2014 at 12:53 am
It’s not just that they’re politicians; a good few of them are literally criminals deserving the perp walk and in many cases to death row.
May 19th, 2014 at 5:28 am
Please. Snowden is a Russian spy. The FSB turned him, and got him to steal NSA methods both for their intelligence value and for their propaganda value. Greenwald has always been a sick puppy, and queers in the West have always been soft target for the Russian spy agencies. If what you really want is to protect Americans’ civil liberties, you don’t give top secret information to Vladimir Putin, you give it to Rand Paul.
May 19th, 2014 at 9:40 am
nk,
Whether Snowden was a soviet agent or asset is immaterial. The unconstitutional spying on Americans simply made US intelligence more vulnerable to undermining by foreign agencies. That risk in itself should have given the US government pause in violating the trust of the American people. But it didn’t.
Nor does his revelation about the spying program mitigate any crimes he may have committed by giving legitimate secrets to foreign governments.
May 19th, 2014 at 6:25 pm
nk,
A question… just who keeps our spy agencies and police honest?
If they do it themselves you and I know they will become corrupt. That is just the nature of mankind. All power does corrupt, and absolute power with no review corrupts absolutely.
So you have to have some mechanism to keep them in fear. Leaks are the mechanism.
But nowdays they punish the leakers as much as they can to limit the exposure.