Snowden took the job so he could leak secrets. That’s treason.
However, it doesn’t mean that what the government’s doing doesn’t deserve scrutiny. That’s part of rule of law.
I wonder what the majority of comments around here would have looked like if this same thing happened under, oh I don’t know, a president Palin.
“Snowden took the job so he could leak secrets. That’s treason.”
Leaking secrets, in it’s self, is not treason. It depends on what the secret is and why it’s secret. For example, Obama’s college records are sealed and secret. If the only people it is secret from is the American people, then it shouldn’t be secret in the first place...
"ERRORS CEASING TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN IT IS PERMITTED FREELY TO CONTRADICT THEM"
Lots of Errors manifesting themselves these days -- as wolves in sheep's clothing.
Snowden and Assange will meet an unsightly end when the Usefulness of their howling Idiocy runs out.
"According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.The first stage being "demoralization". It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion. Publisher, editors, journalists, uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science. Members of parliament, representatives of business circles.Most of these people were divided roughly into two groups: those who would tow the Soviet foreign policy, they would be promoted to positions of power through media and public manipulation; [and] those who refuse the Soviet influence in their own country would be character assassinated OR executed physically, come Revolution. "--KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)