Posted on 06/09/2013 2:04:20 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Edward Snowden, the self-revealed whistle-blower at the National Security Agency, explains that part of the reason he decided to come forward was because President Obama did not roll back the surveillance measures put into place by the Bush Administration.
“A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party,” Snowden said in an i nterview with the Guardian. “But I believed in Obama’s promises. I was going to disclose it [but waited because of his election]. He continued with the policies of his predecessor.”
Snowden acknowledged that he watched Obama struggle as he attempted to justify the surveillance programs during his press conference on Friday.
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I’ll bet he leaked it to the Guardian because he did not trust the 0bamaMedia here in the U.S. They got DISSED!
He put his neck on the line to expose yet another Obama abuse of the Constitution. He has come forward instead of skulking in the shadows. You are acting like a pom-pom waver for Obama's surveillance state.
Unlike Obama there is a lot about which we KNOW NOTHING!
Most 25yr olds voted for Obama in ‘08. They have been brainwashed by a school system designed to graduate the gullible and politically correct.
This has been in the works for years ~ Obama didn’t invent it.
He’s too high profile to kill now... I’m concerned about his loved ones...
Obama expanded it. And has worked to define conservatives as terrorists. Put two and two together, if you can stop your cheerleading long enough.
If Democrats working at the IRS blow the whistle on what’s going on there, their evidence is just as good as Republican’s.
IMHO, same deal at NSA, FBI, CIA, etc.
The whole surveillance scandal is simply the truth coming out.
I admit when GWB came out with the measures his “experts” recommended to him I thought it was ok, I was just concerned about what the next President would do.
Now that I know who’s pulling the strings in Washington - globalists - I see that it’s all very bad, that ALL the Presidents of the last century were either globalists themselves or under their control enough that the agenda just kept rolling on.
And now this where America is at - every phone bill every month. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Democrate vs. Republican is an idiotic sick stupid joke on us.
...If his love ones who are innocent bystanders, end up suddenly mysteriously dead then there will be a greater backlash
No, but he might have been the first to use it for his political gain in an apparently indiscriminate, and yet utterly discriminating, fashion.
Which is the danger of one of these sorts of all inclusive databases to begin with. The urge to purge becomes too great and sooner or later someone uses that information to become a despot.
I suspect this 29yr old is a stool pigeon. I also suspect that the higher ups planned to use this database to seal control at some point LATER in the implementation once we were accustomed to being watched, having no privacy, and having our medical care rationed. Oh, and after they had all our guns. Obama and his henchmen couldn’t resist the urge to use it for their immediate political gain and the ptb’s have decided his time to leave (or at least his time to lame duck) has come.
So did Obama, Holder, et. al, who have run roughshod over the Constitution. We have as the law of the land, the blatantly unconstitutional Obamacare, which is costing our liberty.
Snowden knew enough to believe he had to flee the country rather than blow this whistle to Congress.
Look at all the scandals now in progress since Fast & Furious was revealed. Nothing has actually been done yet. Holder is still in office, Obama still has popularity ratings above 50%.
How could this guy have believed in keeping his oath and trying to work within the system?
Isn’t it sad! Way too many conservatives are in favor of the government spying on it’s citizens. And way too many are members of the “Why worry if you did nothing wrong?” crowd.
He DID find a way to blame Bush - and this story has taken the pressure off the IRS scams... and the story about our ‘capabilities’ ARE well known - and have been well known for a long time...
he also didn't tell the truth. plus, he's probably mentally ill since he supported obamugabe all the way in 2008. he's within that age zone that usually shows up with affective schizophrenic disorder. we still execute guys like that.
He is not a dem or a repub, just an American against tyranny. I pray more will see how corrupt the US has become. This “government” is completely out of control. The people need to take back their capital from the DC sewer.
Who did the CPUSA run that year?
It’s telling the poster has more ire directed at the whistleblower than those expanding this program massively to pull in domestic data on Americans.
I don't give the obamistas that much credit for intelligence.
we take them one at a time. first Snowden. then the others. But the house chairman was on today and spelled out a different story. talk to him about it.
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