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Posted on 08/26/2013 10:18:14 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Damon praises Snowden for NSA leaks By Rebecca Shabad - 08/26/13 11:46 AM ET
Actor Matt Damon is praising National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden's decision to expose classified domestic surveillance programs as "a great thing" for the country.
“I think it’s a great thing he did," Damon, who has portrayed CIA agents in the "Bourne" movie trilogy and "The Good Shepherd," said in an interview posted on YouTube on Aug. 22.
The Hollywood actor said he hadn’t read everything that Snowden has leaked, but called him a “conscientious guy.”
“If we're going to trade our civil liberties for our security, then that should be a decision that we collectively make," Damon added. “It shouldn’t be made for us.”
Husam “Sam” Asi, the interviewer in the brief one-minute clip, is CEO of film and music website UKScreen and host of BBC Arabic TV show “Alternative Cinema.” The full interview with Damon was broadcast on his show on Saturday.
Damon recently waded into the political conversation in early August when he said in an interview with BET, “[Obama] broke up with me.” He said he questioned the legality of the Obama administration’s drone strikes, and the NSA’s surveillance programs that Snowden revealed.
“[Obama’s] got some explaining to do, particularly for a constitutional law professor,” he said in the Aug. 7 interview.
Damon was a strong supporter of Obama during his presidential campaigns.
In the YouTube interview, Damon asks, “To what degree are we willing to sacrifice those liberties for our security?”
“That’s something everyone needs to talk about,” he said. “It’s not something that should be just done."
As of Aug. 26, the short clip had more than 10,000 views.
Other countries already knew what the US was doing, Snowden just informed the US public. That wasn’t according to the plan. I’m starting to suspect other things that have been kept from us will come to light in a few years.
I’m with you.
Does this mean he is pro-self-defense and pro-firearms?
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Hey if Matt Damon were on that plane, 9-11 wouldn’t have happened.
If your thinking of what I’m thinking of, it was Wahlberg who said 911 wouldn’t have happened if he was on one of those planes.
I thought it was Damon after his bourne movies? I will google it. Either way he is an A-Hole.
you were right it was Wahlberg, i didn’t think he was that stupid.
They are both from Boston, what did you expect?
Can’t stand Matt Damon but even a blind hog stumbles upon an acorn every once in a while!!!
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