Posted on 06/09/2013 10:09:39 PM PDT by knak
Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former intelligence worker who leaked details of NSA data collection to journalists, first approached the Washington Post with his trove of information, The Post's Barton Gellman reported on Sunday. But when the paper wouldn't meet Snowden's conditions, he went to The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, who first published the story about the NSA collecting Verizon customers' phone records. The Post did get the PRISM story in the end, and along with it Gellman's rather thrilling account of dealing with his mysterious source, a former NSA analyst and Booz Allen Hamilton employee who used the code name Verax. Even over the course of his three-week conversation with reporters, Snowden seems to have changed his views on how he wanted to carry out his leak.
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How is this guy any different than Bradley Manning?
How is this guy any different than Bradley Manning?
None that I can think of.
I’m surprised WaPo didn’t rat him out to their handlers.
>> How is this guy any different than Bradley Manning?
He doesn’t take it up the ass?
Edward Snowden exposed Obama's Orwellian approach to the Tea Party and anyone else who values the US Constitution.
So yes, there is a slight difference between the two.
Bradley Manning exposed the names of foreign nationals actively spying for the CIA. This guy revealed that the federal government is routinely engaged in domestic espionage without even the fig leaf of a judge-issued warrant.
How often does the NSA make the news? And yet it’s become the ultimate villain overnight in a way we’ve never seen before. I call BS on all of this.
Only idiots further the cause of Marxism. The NSA is not an organization of idiots.
Something stinks about this story.
Thank you for that. You saved me from typing the same thing. Agreed.
Yes when he told msm lackeys stuff that would damage THEIR BOSS AND IDOL they had NO INTEREST —this damages HIS image and not theirs..?
What incredibly misplaced confidence...!
Wow.
I am not sure who "my partner" referred to. If it was a female, I would think he would have said girl friend or wife. Now, that brings up the issue of homo's and security clearances. Obozo thinks it is no issue, but historically it has been.
I’ve seen other articles referring to his girlfriend. They lived together in his house in Hawaii... which is now empty and for sale.
Yes, but the liberals think Manning is a hero and Snowden a villain. Goes to show their priorities.
The Post sought the views of government officials about the potential harm to national security prior to publication and decided to reproduce only four of the 41 slides.)
Because he revealed that the NSA is illegally spying on US citizens by reading all of our emails and text messages ad logging every phone call we make,, even exceeding the efforts of the Stasi??
I see little difference between people who break a solemn oath. Neither is trustworthy. Most of us already know that the Obama administration is also. Snowden isn't going to change the minds of Obamabots.
It seems by bringing up the Tea Party in the same post as the NSA you might be mixing scandals. It may very well be that the intent of the NSA snooping was to gather information on enemies of the administration, including the Tea Party. However, the scope of the data gathering was EVERYBODY. Even “friends” of the administration might be alarmed about their information being vacuumed up.
So, in the future, think: IRS -> Tea Party (and other various conservatives) while NSA -> everybody. The other aspect is that NSA was snooping while IRS was snooping and retribution, but primarily retribution.
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