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Bolton: NSA leaker Edward Snowden is guilty of treason
WLS ^ | June 10, 2013 | John Dempsey

Posted on 06/10/2013 7:31:41 AM PDT by maggief

(CHICAGO)

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Former U.S. Ambassador John Bolton told Bruce Wolf and Dan Proft on WLS that he thinks admitted leaker Edward Snowden, is guilty of treason:

"Number one, this man is a liar. He took an oath to keep the secrets that were shared with him so he could do his job. He said said he would not disclose them, and he lied. Number two, he lied because he thinks he's smarter and has a higher morality than the rest of us. This guy thinks he has a higher morality, that he can see clearer than other 299-million 999-thousand 999 of us, and therefore he can do what he wants. I say that is the worst form of treason".

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bolton; neocon; snowden
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To: InterceptPoint

View it as authoritarians versus freedom lovers and it all settles into place, deluded though the left end of the spectrum for either one may well be.


221 posted on 06/10/2013 9:24:50 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: flaglady47

>>Yeah, like that’s going to happen when the eye of everyone in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world is focussed on Mr. Snowden at this moment in time. <<

Oh, really? Exactly where is he then? What hotel, what room?

Are you so sure he hasn’t already been picked up?

How would we know? And how long would it take, if he did disappear, before conspiracy theorists start theorizing that it’s our government, not the Chinese, that have him (whether true or not)?

You seriously don’t think the Chinese are trying to find him right this moment? I suspect they know exactly where he is, and are laying plans for his transit to mainland China in the very near future. Hong Kong was not the wisest choice, in my opinion.

Look, you sound so certain that his treason did no damage to our national security. All I’m saying is that you can’t know that, and that in the end it could do serious damage.

And I do think our government surveillance has run amuck. The question is whether or not he behaved treasonously in exposing the extent of surveillance. I don’t think there’s any question about that. He did. And if the Chinese get hold of him, what he’s revealed so far might pale in comparison to what they are able to squeeze out of him later.


222 posted on 06/10/2013 9:25:58 AM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left-Completely!)
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To: maggief

Yay, I don’t agree with you on this one.

This guy exposed a corrupt government and I’m grateful for his stance.


223 posted on 06/10/2013 9:27:46 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Makes one wonder just how extensive is the plot to overthrow our nation/our Constitution.

The folks have been dumbed down
The folks have been made dependent
The folks have been separated from their history/heritage
The folks have been plied with a lifetime of lies
The folks have been desensitized to morality
The folks have been re-inculturated
The folks have been driven, like animals to serve their baser instincts/drives/lusts

The folks are ready for a “god” to lead them...


224 posted on 06/10/2013 9:28:35 AM PDT by MarDav
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To: maggief

I would vote for John Bolton for any office in a nanosecond.


225 posted on 06/10/2013 9:29:56 AM PDT by Cyman
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To: petitfour

Think about how okay with this some of the Pubbies are! What it behind the curtain of all this that implicate them/threaten them.


226 posted on 06/10/2013 9:30:20 AM PDT by MarDav
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To: CitizenUSA

“That’s [FISA rubber stamping is] a major issue here! “

And I agreed. Calling it a Canary is a reference to a means of detecting danger.

“No one is claiming the government doesn’t have the right to collect information.”

I get the impression a substantial number of people are getting very close to saying just that.


227 posted on 06/10/2013 9:30:59 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: InterceptPoint
Precisely. It has run a sword through vast partisan and ideological blocks. I see this as proof that it warrants a great national discussion, which Mr. Snowden claims to be his purpose.

I like your ironic tagline. Reminds me of a truck I saw on a Chicago freeway a few decades ago which said: No Slogan - Just Service.
228 posted on 06/10/2013 9:31:49 AM PDT by jobim (.)
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To: volunbeer

“We subject ourselves to this when we go to websites that put cookies on our computers to track our habits.”

There are multiple freeware programs that block cookies. There are also multiple freeware programs that will erase cookies from the hard drive.


229 posted on 06/10/2013 9:32:22 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: maggief
If Bolton is serious, rather than just reading the lines for the part he is playing, then Bolton can't think out of his career box full of beliefs from a different time.

After giving this some thought, I realized that average geek, American Ed Snowden, has restored my faith in the generation behind me.

Here is someone who went through the total indoctrination and then, ten years out, the freedom loving American rose up and threw that crap off of him, took the ultimate risks, both for him and his, and stood up to obama and the Beast!

Is he the David against our story's Goliath?

Is he this generation's lone man in Tiananmen Square standing against a line of tanks?

I don't know yet, but I don't see him as a traitor guilty of treason. Right now, he looks more like Paul Revere.

I think I see a very brave man doing what every other who saw the same things was unable to do.

230 posted on 06/10/2013 9:32:30 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: Cicero

“You know darned well that any information sucked up by these programs will be used not to identify Muslim terrorists, but to spy on Tea Partiers and conservatives and gun owners.”

You are correct to a point, the current administration will use it for their benefit to get ahead of their political opposition and the excuse of looking for terrorists will be a plus,(that is, if they use it.) I gress we will never trust our government again.


231 posted on 06/10/2013 9:35:21 AM PDT by depenzz
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To: Norseman

“And if the Chinese get hold of him, what he’s revealed so far might pale in comparison to what they are able to squeeze out of him later.”

Well, we’ll see if that ever happens, that the Chinese swoop down, whisk him away and interrogate him for all the world to see. And I’m sure that they are going to do this while Mr. Snowden is in Hong Kong, which fights mainland China tooth and nail in order to preserve freedom of speech. Heck, the Chinese may very well have already hacked all of our data mining anyhow.


232 posted on 06/10/2013 9:35:56 AM PDT by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: petitfour
The question is whether or not the Executive branch went after records of citizens who oppose them.

We know for sure that the Executive branch used the NSA to gut Petraeus.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/06/07/NSA-Whistle-blower-Obama-Took-Down-General-Petraeus-With-Surveillance-Program

Question answered.

233 posted on 06/10/2013 9:36:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Forget it, Jake. It's Eric Holder's people.")
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To: flaglady47

I’m on the liberty and freedom side of this, you appear to have chosen the neo-con, hawk only, secrecy, RINO establishment side of this. To each their own.
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No. I’m on the “let’s be careful to not confuse what we are talking about”, and the “let’s not shoot ourselves because a nut across the street has a gun” side.


234 posted on 06/10/2013 9:38:22 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: catbertz

Guy gave away a $200K a year job, his home, family, freedom, friends, girl friend to out a corrupt government gone amok. That not treason in my book.


235 posted on 06/10/2013 9:39:45 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Hey NSA Goon watching FR... Suck this - > =====>)
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To: lepton

“No. I’m on the “let’s be careful to not confuse what we are talking about”, and the “let’s not shoot ourselves because a nut across the street has a gun” side.”

I don’t know about you, but I am anything but confused, and as to the nut across the street with the gun, I can assure you I would not shoot myself, I’d shoot him, lol!!!


236 posted on 06/10/2013 9:41:14 AM PDT by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: rarestia

Okay; for the record I agree with you.


237 posted on 06/10/2013 9:41:19 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: Wings-n-Wind
WHERE ARE THE FEARLESS CHAMPIONS OF AMERICAN LIBERTY??

That's my question also.

I believe when the first REAL ONE finally emerges many others will follow.

238 posted on 06/10/2013 9:41:45 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Norseman

“The question is whether or not he behaved treasonously”

So did our founding fathers. It all depends on whose ox is being gored.


239 posted on 06/10/2013 9:44:33 AM PDT by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: rarestia

“Whistle blowers’ go to their congressman/senator. TRAITORS go to COMMUNIST CHINA


240 posted on 06/10/2013 9:44:50 AM PDT by capt B
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