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Snowden says Petraeus disclosed ‘far more highly classified’ secrets ‘than I ever did’
Yahoo ^ | December 4, 2016 | Michael Isikoff

Posted on 12/04/2016 7:54:45 AM PST by Leaning Right

In an exclusive interview with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric, Edward Snowden says that former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus — under consideration to be President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state — disclosed “information that was far more highly classified than I ever did” and yet never “spent a single day in jail.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: petraeus; snowden
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Snowden did not cite any specific examples. We just have to take his word for it that Petraeus spilled more secrets than he (Snowden) did.

Nevertheless, this is just one example of the articles that would appear over and over again should Petraeus be appointed to anything.

1 posted on 12/04/2016 7:54:45 AM PST by Leaning Right
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But Petraeus only disclosed them to his girlfriend, who did not tell anyone else, whereas Snowden published to the world.


2 posted on 12/04/2016 7:59:44 AM PST by proxy_user
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To: Leaning Right

I am not a fan of the Petraeus potential appointment. But if this were to happen it would be a great opportunity to get the Dems to scream and yell, only to dig Hillary’s hole even bigger.

Snowden, keep screaming!


3 posted on 12/04/2016 8:00:43 AM PST by dgbrown
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Then, ran away to Russia, and gave them more info! No comparison between them, IMO.


4 posted on 12/04/2016 8:03:46 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Leaning Right

He didn’t dump them to the press. He revealed them to his biographer who had a clearance as an intel officer as I recall.


5 posted on 12/04/2016 8:05:34 AM PST by marron
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To: Leaning Right
snowden quote from the piece re: "two tiered" justice system. He seems to be making the case for prosecution of hildabeast?

“When we had the most senior intelligence official in the United States, Gen. James Clapper, who lied to the American people and all of Congress on camera, under oath, in the Senate, in a famous exchange with Ron Wyden, he wasn’t even charged,” Snowden said. “But giving false testimony to Congress under oath, as he did, is a felony. It’s typically punished by three to five years in prison.”

6 posted on 12/04/2016 8:14:28 AM PST by thinden
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But Petraeus only disclosed them to his girlfriend...

Who was doing research for her book. Good judgement?

7 posted on 12/04/2016 8:15:03 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: marron
clearance still requires "Need to Know"
8 posted on 12/04/2016 8:19:58 AM PST by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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Snowden says Petraeus disclosed ‘far more highly classified’ secrets ‘than I ever did’

Does "far more" refer to quantity or quality? One document at a higher classification level than Snowden released to one person would make this true. Misleading, but true.

9 posted on 12/04/2016 8:20:42 AM PST by KarlInOhio (" T'was the witch of November come stealin' " And who could the stealing Witch of November be? Hmm?)
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To: Leaning Right

Hellary sold more than both of them put together.


10 posted on 12/04/2016 8:22:42 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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Does "far more" refer to quantity or quality?

Snowden doesn't say. My best guess is that he as angling for a pardon here, or some sort of deal where he gets probation.

After all, Petraeus was worse!

11 posted on 12/04/2016 8:25:41 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

He’s a nation building globalist...the scandal is just icing on the cake


12 posted on 12/04/2016 8:29:49 AM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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Having a TS doesn’t give you access to everything TS! You violate “special access” rules you have still have violated the law. Just because Broadwell was trained to be an Intel officer doesn’t mean she had a right to see the information. If I remember correctly she was there to write Petraeus’s biography. (Which I think is very odd!) So she was not there to act as an Intel officer! In that capacity it’s hard to imagine why she had any right to any Intel. If it was done because she was hanging around Afghan Command HQ all day and it was easier to keep her TS etc active then actually enforce security rules then they have a bigger security problem there then just Broadwell & Petraeus.


13 posted on 12/04/2016 8:31:45 AM PST by Reily
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Petraeus didn’t seem to be aware he was stepping over any lines and didn’t feel the need to flee....he did wrong but Snowden, much as I’m glad he did what he did, was fully aware that he was shaking the hornet nest.


14 posted on 12/04/2016 8:31:50 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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Snowden gave away the crown jewels of intelligence: Sources and methods. If not actual names, he put people in danger.


15 posted on 12/04/2016 8:37:13 AM PST by Tom Bombadil
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“But Petraeus only disclosed them to his girlfriend, who did not tell anyone else, whereas Snowden published to the world”

His girlfriend who ALSO had a security clearance


16 posted on 12/04/2016 8:40:29 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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“But Petraeus only disclosed them to his girlfriend, who did not tell anyone else, whereas Snowden published to the world”

His girlfriend who ALSO had a security clearance


17 posted on 12/04/2016 8:41:32 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Tom Bombadil

Can’t disagree but he also exposed what the government is doing to the People - there wasn’t much of a graceful way to do it. An argument can be made on either side of “Keep the People in the dark about government treachery” or “Make the People aware even though it may have some sad costs” - how does one decide when there is no way to both make us aware and protect the assets?


18 posted on 12/04/2016 8:43:53 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Leaning Right

Betraeus needs to just go away. Giving illegal access to classified information is a crime. To give him a pass on this is wrong IMHO.

Snowden ....yer going to jail eventually. Your motives may have been good but your methods were criminal.

My opinion.


19 posted on 12/04/2016 8:46:12 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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Well, Petraeus didn’t walk away from his post and defect to the known enemy.


20 posted on 12/04/2016 8:55:19 AM PST by DaveA37
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