Snowdon is a dummy

The Texas Republican and many-times presidential candidate launched a clemency petition for Snowden back in February that has now tallied more than 37,000 signatures. A separate petition on the White House's website has garnered more than 160,000 signatures. Any White House petition that earns more than 100,000 signatures is typically met with an official response, but the Obama administration had yet to deliver one regarding Snowden.

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The United States hosts the Goliaths of global cloud computing, and overseas companies that have been chomping at the bit to gain a chunk of cloud computing market share see this distrust as a marketing opportunity. Some of these foreign storage providers, like F-Secure—whose services are now being offered by companies like AT&T (T) and British Telecommunications (BT)—are touting the privacy of their storage. Companies like F-Secure have their data centers in the EU, where privacy laws aren’t as lax as in the US.

To try to level the playing field, the European Commission is developing a public cloud infrastructure for public and private use for the region. What’s more, big Chinese companies like Chinanet (CNET), Shanda (GAME), Kingsoft ( KSFTF) , Alibaba (will have its US IPO in 2014) and Huawei are investing in locally based cloud technology as well.

According to the New America report, several US-based tech companies, including Qualcomm (QCOM), IBM (IBM), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Microsoft have reported a decline in sales in China in the time since the leaks. The German government is reportedly severing its contracts with Verizon because of their cooperation with the NSA, and in December Brazil gave a $4.5 billion contract to Saab (SAABF) over Boeing (BA), with the NSA taking the blame. The issue reaches down to smaller businesses as well, like Servint, a webhosting company that “reported in June 2014 that international clients have declined by as much as half … since the leaks began.”

In the US, the future data security looks somewhat promising in light of new senate legislation that would better regulate bulk data collection by the NSA, although many feel the reform bill is only a first step toward security. While proponents of the bill hope that it will help restore trust in the Internet in the US, it would likely take some time to restore international confidence in US-based services.

In the US, the future data security looks somewhat promising in light of new senate legislation that would better regulate bulk data collection by the NSA, although many feel the reform bill is only a first step toward security. While proponents of the bill hope that it will help restore trust in the Internet in the US, it would likely take some time to restore international confidence in US-based services.

Personally I think that would be worse than just letting him live in Russia. It would give anyone license to think they can steal any classified information if they feel like it, using any excuse to justify it. I don't think there would be a president who would do so in actuality. (including Jimmy Carter, there would be too many legal problems involved in doing so for one thing)

I know everyone is going to disagree besides the few on this thread who are on the side I'm on, so rather than getting into one of those pointless debates once again, I'll just say, I realize you feel that way.

I'm not sure any President would pardon Snowden, but I don't think it would be out of the question. There is certainly a strong strain of the political population among liberals and libertarians that think Snowden is a hero and the US public is about evenly split so it wouldn't be political suicide. Someone from those wings would be an outside shot for the White House but if one would make it I could see a pardon. Some of Clinton's pardons were really distasteful and that didn't stop Obama from getting elected.

Rev, I wish you and Frank were right. I wish a informed electroate would take government in hand and change it for the better. But read your local newspaper, watch your local tv station. The Isralies and big business own both sources of the media and government, what they say is poor Israel, bad Hamas. You notice they equate Hamas with all palistinians. 60 Jewish solders killed, 1800 palistinian. Gives one the notion that 1800 pal solders have been killed. Maybe 200 hamas 1600 civilians mostly women and children but no one in the paper I read points that out so one has to be willing to get on the computer and go to foreign english media to really find the true facts. Most are too lazy to do this and accept the media garbage as fact.

Your right, some of Clinton's pardons were terrible. I really don't know why he did it frankly. It was at the end of his term, for the most part, most of the average person who really don't keep up with these things, didn't know who they were, I didn't know them until it was in the press and I looked that one guy up. Everyone knows who Snowden is and what he did. Besides all else, it would set a bad precedent.

I would not think it is my place to tell someone they should leave, 

Gives one the notion that 1800 pal solders have been killed. Maybe 200 hamas 1600 civilians mostly women and children but no one in the paper

And now that you have allowed the spooks to spy on anyone including MPs, what makes you think your representative is not being cowed into submission by some blackmail or another?

Even in a true democracy, the government only represents 50+% of the people, so equating government and country is always a mistake.

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And now that you have allowed the spooks to spy on anyone including MPs, what makes you think your representative is not being cowed into submission by some blackmail or another?



I think you all's imaginations have run a bit amuck, perhaps too many spy movies.