What's your opinion on Edward Snowden?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope Obama leaves his ass in Russia to rot.

Another democrat, full agree. The government can spy on me all it wants if it prevents another 9-11.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you hoping Obama pardons him?

I believe he's a hero and a patriot. The very essence of a whistleblower in the public interest.

Can you explain how revealing the country's foreign surveillance activities to our allies and enemies is either whistleblowing or in the public interest please?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you hoping Obama pardons him?

I believe he's a hero and a patriot. The very essence of a whistleblower in the public interest.

Can you explain how revealing the country's foreign surveillance activities to our allies and enemies is either whistleblowing or in the public interest please?

Crickets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you hoping Obama pardons him?

I believe he's a hero and a patriot. The very essence of a whistleblower in the public interest.

Can you explain how revealing the country's foreign surveillance activities to our allies and enemies is either whistleblowing or in the public interest please?

Can you explain how we'd even know about the illegal surveillance on AMERICAN citizens if Snowden hadn't done what he did?

It's whistleblowing 101.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Traitor. He swore an oath, he signed that he will never reveal any secrets. That is all I need to know, he broke an oath.

According to that simplistic "logic," everyone involved in the Pentagon Papers was a traitor, for example.

And every whistleblower, in any context, should be prosecuted.

Sorry, that's how a totalitarian regime works. Not a Constitutional democracy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you hoping Obama pardons him?

I believe he's a hero and a patriot. The very essence of a whistleblower in the public interest.

Can you explain how revealing the country's foreign surveillance activities to our allies and enemies is either whistleblowing or in the public interest please?

Can you explain how we'd even know about the illegal surveillance on AMERICAN citizens if Snowden hadn't done what he did?

It's whistleblowing 101.

Oh, tough one. Let's see. He could have released the information about domestic spying but not the information about foreign surveillance.

Suppose your kid had a friend who says he wants to tell you about some dangerous behavior that your kid was into. The way he tells you is by posting on the internet all of your kid's email, his social security number, his school grades, his medical records, his bank account numbers, and videos of him doing drugs, home-made porn, and sexts with his underage girlfriend. Does the fact that he says he wanted to tell you about the dangerous stuff excuse the way he did it, and that he went way beyond what he needed to tell?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He's a weasel who thought he was smart enough to get away with what he did.

Yep.