You should read the whole thing at The Guardian, but this is my favorite response:
…it’s important to bear in mind I’m being called a traitor by men like former Vice President Dick Cheney. This is a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis dead. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him, Feinstein, and King, the better off we all are. If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.
If it were only Dick Cheney calling him a traitor he might have a point, but it goes far beyond Cheney.
And across the political aisle too.
Swonden is a rebel against a corrupt political system and military industrial complex- not a traitor. he told the american people that the gov’t was secretly listenly to them, warrantless, taking away any right to privacy. if he had sold nuclear weapons info to the n. koreans- different story. N. korean is an old admitted enemy of the state, support that regime and you should get what’s coming. but i thouhght Obama wanted more transparency. now there are even more secret programs that are supposedly being used to hunt down potential terrorists. Maybe if America actually had border security, including better background checks for guest workers flying into its many airports, we wouldn’t have aspiring foreign terrorists here in the first place. Divert the funds from these orwellian gov’t agencies to programs that will keep track of immigrants and visitors alike. Make them go through a full security clearance and if any red flags pop up turn them away. American citizens should not be the ones being put under a microscope. Thank you Mr Snowden.
buddyv69,
Ike actually planned to say at his farewell speech the “military–industrial–congressional complex”. He feared that pissing off congress with the insult may be a risk not worth taking, so he changed it in the final draft.
The NSA can’t find a Boston bomber live tweeting and can’t find a 90 minute internet broadcast. How incompetent can a surveillance agency be?