Snowdon is a dummy

Blah blah blah... Try and focus or I'll have to stop discussing with you. I know what I asked for, and it was not your OPINION. Capice?

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But Snowden did much more than that. The documents that he gave the Washington Post’s Barton Gellman and the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald have, so far, furnished stories about the NSA’s interception of email traffic, mobile phone calls, and radio transmissions of Taliban fighters in Pakistan’s northwest territories; about an operation to gauge the loyalties of CIA recruits in Pakistan; about NSA email intercepts to assist intelligence assessments of what’s going on inside Iran; about NSA surveillance of cellphone calls “worldwide,” an effort that (in the Post’s words) “allows it to look for unknown associates of known intelligence targets by tracking people whose movements intersect.”

I asked for facts.

Then in 2008 Richard Clarke made mention of it in a “blip” in his book. At the time he was the highest former government official to even acknowledge the issue. He described it this way:

“Osama bin Laden once routinely communicated over a satellite telephone. The conversations gave us great insight into him and what he was doing (and, interestingly into his relations with his mother).

Then one day someone, who obviously was not thinking, revealed the fact to a newspaper that, exercising no discretion, published it. The calls stopped almost immediately.

Bin laden is now (remember this book was written in 2008) thought to use only face to face communications to avoid interception and tracking. I sometimes wonder if we could have learned enough about 9/11 plot to stop it had Bin Laden continued to use his satellite phone, had the newspapers not published that story, had the leaker been more observant of the laws” (pg 105).

Schweitzer is a shrewd politician, and one assumes that he has given his position on Snowden some thought. He appears to have concluded that defending Snowden will strengthen his civil libertarian bona fides, and that Kaplan’s contention that Snowden’s revelations materially damaged America’s ability to achieve legitimate foreign policy objectives is not enough to merit serious punishment. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, another future presidential contender, has called for lenient treatment of Snowden, if not clemency. There are many smart people who agree with Kaplan on the one hand and Schweitzer on the other, and though I can’t imagine that the Obama administration will embrace the idea of lenient punishment or clemency, there are plenty of mainstream Democrats who favor it. I’m going to interview two very smart people on this subject on Friday, and I’ll be sure to report back.

I asked for facts, as a way to prove your ignorance of such facts. That's perfectly ok. You should go off your merry-go-round once in a while.

It is waste of time trying to reason with people with closed minds who refuse to see outside their own preconceived views.

Personally I do not like to think one man is in charge of deciding what will be harmful and will not.

Sorry Frank, but who watches the watch men? You don't understand the illusion of ruling and the illusion of power. That's why you go back in circles, because you refuse to go against your deceitful country.