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Judge Napolitano: NSA Leaker Andrew Snowden "An American Hero" (Video at URL
Real Clear Politics ^ | 6/10/2013 | Ian Schwartz

Posted on 06/10/2013 4:36:24 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist

JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO: I would describe this man as an American hero, as a person willing to risk life, limb and liberty in order to expose to the American people one of the most extraordinary violations of the American principles, value judgments and the Constitution itself in all of our history.

A person so familiar with the intelligence community, as you just heard from the excerpts that you just played. He's aware of the personal danger to himself. He knows of the likelihood of prosecution. But he also understands that the government listening to half the country is not what was bargained for when statues were enacted in the days and weeks after 9/11...

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1 posted on 06/10/2013 4:36:24 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Snowden is a sounding board for established political bias.


2 posted on 06/10/2013 4:37:16 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Andrew or Edward?


3 posted on 06/10/2013 4:37:42 PM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

It is supposed to be Edward, but RCP has Andrew in the title to the article at the website...


4 posted on 06/10/2013 4:39:47 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
You can tell it's true because all the leftists are outraged.

Then enemy of my enemy is my friend.

5 posted on 06/10/2013 4:39:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Forget it, Jake. It's Eric Holder's people.")
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

This one is splintering the right isn’t it. Bolton sees it just the opposite.


6 posted on 06/10/2013 4:40:38 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama lied, four men died, and he went to hide...)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

This person is an Obama supporter. A liberal.

The most dangerous threat to this country is not the CIA monitoring telephone numbers (though it IS a threat)

The greatest danger to this republic is pervasive liberalism and the accompanying socialist and Marxist underpinnings. Those underpinnings will destroy this country more thoroughly and completely than any monitoring program possibly could.

Monitoring programs and invasion of privacy can be stopped via oversight if there is the political will on the part of the citizenry and the government to do so.

Advocating and supporting liberal left policies that have as a goal the destruction of property rights and the ability to keep the fruits of your own labor will demolish the “political will on the part of the citizenry and the government” because destroying our wealth is the equivalent (with respect to freedom) to a farmer destroying the seed for next years crops.

Once that is gone, liberty and freedom go with it.

Because this person Snowden is like a blind squirrel that finds a nut by accident isn’t going to make me support or admire him. I think it is a fine circumstance that he did see fit to spill his guts, but I wouldn’t trust him or admire him.

I view him the same way I view an enemy traitor in a time of war who provides my side with information. The traitor may have all kinds of reasons for his actions (I felt I wasn’t getting the appropriate recognition or promotion, I didn’t agree with the direction of the war, etc) but he still supports the basic beliefs of the side he betrays.

In this case, the guy may be a disenchanted Obama supporter, but by all accounts, he still believes in everything a radical Obama believes in, and that makes him my enemy.

Such a time we live in, where I have to admit to myself that I can view some Americans as enemies, but it is true that I do, as in “Enemies Foreign and Domestic”.


7 posted on 06/10/2013 4:41:26 PM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
as a former NSA wonk, I agree.

The dude is our conscience He really is people.

8 posted on 06/10/2013 4:41:31 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
The Judge seems to be one of the few at Fox who realizes that these calls were all within CONUS.

Brett Baier's panel continually referred to calls coming into or going out of the US. Nobody seems to realize that terrorists don't sign a contract with Verizon or AT$t. They use disposable phones. This program isn't going to touch them.

9 posted on 06/10/2013 4:41:57 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,)
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To: DoughtyOne

Bolton seem to be a RINO.


10 posted on 06/10/2013 4:42:17 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Not all the Leftists. There’s a guy posting on that RCP comments sections that believes, in a nutshell, that Snowden is a traitor because disclosure threatens Dear Leader.


11 posted on 06/10/2013 4:42:45 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: DoughtyOne
This one is splintering the right isn’t it. Bolton sees it just the opposite.

I think it is a case of if you are for big government, Right or Left, you hate this guy. If you are for little government, Right or Left, you support this guy.
The Left, although not monolithic, pretty much support big government - so they are nearly unanimous in their hatred for Snowden. The Right is more split between its big government and little government supporters.

12 posted on 06/10/2013 4:44:23 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Now we have to listen to all of these talking heads and the Bush Patriot Act supporters defend the (un)constitutional basis of gathering our personal information without our knowledge. Oh, doesn’t it make their loyalty of this program to Bush validated. The people on Fox (The Five) really proves their loyalty to the government. Very alarming to hear most of the panel except Beckel think the leaker was being so bad to defame their precious government.. The law was not intended for snooping on all of the citizens. They want to see who is opposed to their government, I assume. I think it will come down to those who support liberty and those who think government will protect them. This government is out of control and have the permission from most talking heads to keep it up. Bolton is making a fool of himself which from time to time, he does. I agree with the Judge here.


13 posted on 06/10/2013 4:46:37 PM PDT by Christie at the beach
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To: rlmorel

Surveillance will be harnessed to subject everyone to unending leftism.

So take care what power you allow in anyone’s hands.


14 posted on 06/10/2013 4:47:28 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (TSARNAEVs escaped PRISM. Can you?)
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To: rlmorel
This person is an Obama supporter. A liberal.

If you are referring to Snowden, he contributed to Ron Paul more than once.

15 posted on 06/10/2013 4:47:42 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Very good point.


16 posted on 06/10/2013 4:48:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama lied, four men died, and he went to hide...)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

He’s seemed pretty solid to me up to this point. I don’t remember disagreeing with him stridently in the past.


17 posted on 06/10/2013 4:48:59 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama lied, four men died, and he went to hide...)
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To: El Cid

I admit that’s worth keeping in mind as you think about this one. I agree.


18 posted on 06/10/2013 4:49:49 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama lied, four men died, and he went to hide...)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I say bull shit to that... this guy is a traitor...And if the majority of FRpers are seeing that way, then I’m out of here.


19 posted on 06/10/2013 4:52:19 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: shalom aleichem

If Snowden gave up 200k per year, he had a good reason to come forward.


20 posted on 06/10/2013 4:54:37 PM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell)
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