I supported the atriot Act. I now regret that support. As Glenn Reynolds pointed out, it had more to do with getting “wish lists” passed than it did with our safety.

And no, Snowden did not expose the NSA programs about phone records, etc. Anyone who was paying close attention should have known about it already.

As I said in this post and in others before it, other whistleblowers prior to Snowden revealed those things to Congress and to the public. People didn’t pay that much attention to them because they didn’t call attention to themselves in dramatic fashion in the way Snowden did.

Read this article about the whistleblowers. They did it the right way.

Snowden did it the wrong way. And he did a lot of other things that were the wrong things.

You have absolutely no idea—NONE—whether Snowden’s revelations have on the whole been good for America or very, very bad for it. That is the entire point of my post: that there is every reason to believe that the part we can see (the NSA phone-records, domestic surveillance part) is merely the tip of the iceberg that people think was a good thing to know.

It is astounding hubris if you think that’s it, and that you know whether on the balance what Snowden has done is a good thing.

I now lean heavily toward the second option.

As well as Eichenwald’s point;
“I can understand that disagreement when it comes to the data-mining program that slurps up e-mail and phone data of American citizens. But what, exactly, is Snowden attempting to prove with his China revelations? That countries engage in espionage? That the United States listens in on communications of countries with which it maintains often tense and occasionally volatile relations?”

I see no positive good in Snowden’s exposure of our capabilities and actions toward any foreign power, much less the Chinese. In that regard, Snowden has acted traitorously and if not an actual spy for a foreign power is certainly acting as one.

Snowden’s right about one thing, for sure: he should be afraid for his life.

If the beginning of wisdom is to know what you don’t know, These types haven’t even approached the starting line.

if they are friends, they are not enemies
and if they are not enemies then snowden did not commit treason

funny, but i thought these idiots were lawyers?

but then again, i have explained the term cross purposes (in ways that are opposed to each other ) with soviet feminism (why not with soviet racism, and soviet treason’s)

if you make it that none of the people you send, give aid, transfer information, including the president cant make treason as the war point, then you also do it for the others. the courts are not quite kangaroo yet in their asymetrical idea of law under the equality before the law concepts that are but mere cargo cult imagry

Dmitri Rogozin, the key arms control official, announced Sunday that Russia is developing a new strategic “superweapon” to deal with its U.S. adversary

“Russia is analyzing the situation,” he said. “We are creating a weapon that could be called a superweapon. This is a weapon that will allow us to see the enemy sooner than he will see us and to inflict a blow on him, in retaliatory measures, that will be irreversible for him.” He did not elaborate.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 20 also disclosed that Russia, following the Chinese military, is building state-of-the-art space weapons that would “guarantee [for] Russia the fulfillment of space defense tasks for the period until 2020.”

By contrast, the Pentagon’s new guidance on nuclear weapons issued last week appears to ignore the growing Russian strategic nuclear threat. The guidance states that although Russia is modernizing its nuclear forces, “Russia and the United States are no longer adversaries.”

if thats what the pentagon said
then snowden is not a traitor, is he?