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2014-08-04 Home Front: Politix

As evidence mounts, it's getting harder to defend Edward Snowden

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Posted by gorb 2014-08-04 12:32|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 As evidence mounts, it's getting harder to defend Edward Snowden

Is it getting easier to hang him?

Posted by Skidmark 2014-08-04 17:50|| 2014-08-04 17:50|| Front Page Top

#2 But it was an affront to Snowden's defenders, who've long insisted that journalists handled the NSA leaks so responsibly that no one can identify any damage that they have caused.

Insanely ridiculous logic. The intelligence community has absolutely no business divulging the results of security compromises [or lack of compromise] to anyone except those authorized to review them.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-08-04 18:07|| 2014-08-04 18:07|| Front Page Top

#3 This is a quick summary of my understanding of the facts in the Snowden case, and my conclusions from those facts.

First: Nothing published and attributed to him describes an illegal act by anyone other than him.

Second: Much of the unseemly stuff that has come out does show how bad our laws are. And for that we have Congress to blame. And Congress to remedy.

Third: It is clear from his actions and training that he intended to collect and disseminate this information.

From these facts, I conclude that his actions were a premeditated political campaign designed to have the effect of embarrassing the U.S. in general and Congress in particular, as well as degrading the capability of the executive agencies collecting information in accordance with U.S. Law.

These effects are consistent with Russian interests, who now shield him from U.S. prosecution.

Finally, the important issue going forward is not Snowden and his fate, but how to reverse the degradation of the U.S. collection capability and how the political challenge to the Congress' current set of Laws is resolved.

Posted by rammer 2014-08-04 19:38|| 2014-08-04 19:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Insanely ridiculous logic. The intelligence community has absolutely no business divulging the results of security compromises [or lack of compromise] to anyone except those authorized to review them.

So basically Snowden screws us over but it's a security violation if we talk about how he screwed us over?

I hate to tell y'all this, but this is gonna be another thing like Benghazi where all the hostile foreign actors know what happened and the only people who don't are the American people.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-08-04 19:45|| 2014-08-04 19:45|| Front Page Top

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