I have no issue with Snowden revealing that this type of spying was going on by the NSA on U.S. citizens, in fact, I praise him for that.
But I DO MIND if he has exposed our agents and jeopardized our covert operations against our enemies. I’m not sure that that has been demonstrated yet, but I have heard from some I personally know, who are conservative, patriotic, and military vets, who think Snowden is very much a traitor because they claim that he has sabotaged our legitimate covert capabilities.
Lot of buzz out there that our intel folks fear that Snowden has in his possession a “doomsday file” that could blow our intel establishment to bits even more effectively than the Church Committee.
Perhaps he is holding it for protection. But it’s hard to believe Vlad Putin lets him stay without sharing.
” I’m not sure that that has been demonstrated yet, but I have heard from some I personally know, who are conservative, patriotic, and military vets, who think Snowden is very much a traitor because they claim that he has sabotaged our legitimate covert capabilities.”
Sad to say this but, if they can, your conservative friends in the government and military need to get out because you cannot serve two masters- those that support liberty and those that support tyranny. Those that do stay in the military should do all they can to subvert the current power structure, a power structure that has clearly usurped the constitution and the rights of individual Americans.
There is a turning point where the agencies formed to protect us from enemies outside our borders turn inward to protect the government from the people. At that point those agencies become illegitimate and need to be reformed or abandoned.
Snowden and others have warned us that we are past that point. It behooves us to listen carefully to what they are saying
Traitor or not, we now have that information and we can judge our “leaders” by how they react to it. Rubio fails the test. So does Michelle Bachmann.
Where have you heard that? Peter King???
He did NO SUCH THING!!!