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He described as formative an incident in which he claimed CIA operatives were attempting to recruit a Swiss banker to obtain secret banking information. Snowden said they achieved this by purposely getting the banker drunk and encouraging him to drive home in his car. When the banker was arrested for drunk driving, the undercover agent seeking to befriend him offered to help, and a bond was formed that led to successful recruitment.
This is the moment for libertarians and liberals to unite and nail these attacks on civil liberties and make the connection between the attacks on the First Amendment (free speech), the Fourth Amendment (right to privacy), and the second Second Amendment.There are several possible avenues. One might be an alliance of convenience around Rand Paul - provided he can tamp down the crazy.Definitely time to gang up on Sen. Feinstein. Oregonians should be raising hell with Ron Wyden who is on Feinstein's Senate Intelligence Committee.
I'm sure to get flamed big time for this but this guy ought to be given a fair trial then properly sentenced for being a traitor. Like it or not he violated quite a few laws he swore to keep confidential. Here we have a high school drop out making US policy. This guy needs to be tried and hanged.
We give him a pass then where do we draw the line? In my opinion this piece of trash is on par with John Walker, Robert Hannsen and Aldrich Ames.
Go ahead.......Flame on!! I have a thick skin.
Snowden's motives on the surface appear admirable and patriotic unlike Julian Assange or Bradley Manning. Snowden admits he broke the rules. It was a sacrifice he was willing to take and he knows it's possible he can never return home. If his motives are true then one day a future President, one respectful of the United States Constitution, may pardon him from whatever laws he violated.
If he lives that long.
I'm sure to get flamed big time for this but this guy ought to be given a fair trial then properly sentenced for being a traitor. Like it or not he violated quite a few laws he swore to keep confidential. Here we have a high school drop out making US policy. This guy needs to be tried and hanged.
We give him a pass then where do we draw the line? In my opinion this piece of trash is on par with John Walker, Robert Hannsen and Aldrich Ames.
Go ahead.......Flame on!! I have a thick skin.
Not a flame, nor an agree or disagree, more of questions of right and wrong.
As pointed out by another Walker, Hannsen, Ames, all did treasonous things for money, Snowden appears to have done this out of a sense of right and wrong what is Constitutional or not, again it APPEARS that way right now, at least to me.
My big question for the U.S. and all of us, is if the government passes a law that is unconstitutional is it really a law that should be followed?
If the government is making the rules (laws) and the government can decide what is secret or not secret (national security) HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW?
This is one of those sticky wickets, can of worms and Pandora's box, situations, yep he broke the law, but was the law just, was it constitutional, what should be the punishment if any?
To me there should be no spying, data collection, at all what so ever on any CITIZEN of the U.S. without a warrant. If someone is not a citizen I have no problem checking on them, citizenship has privilages, and this is one of them.
We may have lost some "safety" because of Snowden, but I would rather be less safe, and free than maybe a bit safer and being spied on.
Who is watching the people that are watching the people?