Snowdon is a dummy

Why don't I malign those who tell Americans the truth?

Because, for the most part, I respect them.

I have responded. Using words.

Now tell me why I have to choose the way you chose?

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Now tell me why I have to choose the way you chose?

One reason that most would think fair, Frank - because you promised.

Another reason - because you reply, with words, when you don't have to address tough issues or you just seek to get in a dig.

JTT wrote:


Now tell me why I have to choose the way you chose?


One reason that most would think fair, Frank - because you promised.

Another reason - because you reply, with words, when you don't have to address tough issues or you just seek to get in a dig.

@JTT,

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JTT wrote:


Now tell me why I have to choose the way you chose?


One reason that most would think fair, Frank - because you promised.

Another reason - because you reply, with words, when you don't have to address tough issues or you just seek to get in a dig.

Frank Apisa, I write lots of letters to the editor and op ed pieces. I've had a letter published in The New York Times--and I was lucky enough a few years back to get a full page My Turn article in Newsweek. I've had hundreds of letters published in local newspapers--and have had tens of dozens of op ed essays and guest columns published also, replied, and I quote,

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That you ask such nonsensical questions, Brandon, illustrates that you haven't been following,

But that's the norm for you, and Okie and MM and H2oman and ... . You don't read stuff that describes the evil the US has engaged in for over a century. If you were the open minded individual you are pretending to be, you would have seen the hundreds of articles documenting this evil.

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Good for you, Canadians, that you recently shitcanned one party in your two-party system and brought in another!

errr we don't have a two-party system, either provincially or federally

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The talks on Prism and data privacy have been arranged to coincide with the trade talks in an attempt to defuse the transatlantic tension. EU diplomats and officials say the offer of talks by the Americans is designed to enable the leaders of Germany and France to save face following revelations about the scale of US espionage – particularly in Germany, but also of French and other European embassies and missions in the US.
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Senior EU diplomats, officials, and government ministers confirmed that Britain opposed most of the rest of the EU on joint European talks with the Americans on intelligence and espionage, meaning that national governments will need to pursue the issues separately with Washington.

But he is also a whistleblower who revealed unethical actions by his employer at very great person risk to himself. So far, he was revealed that:
- The NSA is intercepting large quantities of electronic traffic from US citizens without probable cause.

- The NSA is collecting phone call information about many US citizens without probable cause.

- Judicial oversight is a joke.

- The US is spying on our allies during trade negotiations.

- The US is monitoring the electronic traffic of a large number of foreign citizens who are not in any way suspected of a crime.

The guy is a hero. Funny how we look at the guy who released the Pentagon Papers as a hero but this guy is a stupid lawbreaker.

As I understand it, the NSA received an order from the FISA Court authorizing it to retrieve data from communications companies. Presumably, the NSA needed to show probable cause before receiving that order.