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struggle4progress

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Wed Jun 12, 2013, 07:53 PM Jun 2013

More Americans see man who leaked NSA secrets as 'patriot' than traitor: Poll

Andy Sullivan
Reuters
6:12 p.m. CDT, June 12, 2013

... Some 23 percent of those surveyed said former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is a traitor while 31 percent said he is a patriot. Another 46 percent said they did not know ...

In the Reuters/Ipsos poll, 35 percent of those surveyed said Snowden should not face charges while 25 percent said he should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Another 40 percent said they did not know ...

The online survey of 645 Americans was conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday. It has a credibility interval of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points for each result ...

Some 45 percent of those surveyed say the program is acceptable under some circumstances, while 37 percent say it is completely unacceptable, the polling found. Only 6 percent say they have no objections to the program ...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-rt-us-usa-security-pollbre95b1af-20130612,0,2813380.story

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More Americans see man who leaked NSA secrets as 'patriot' than traitor: Poll (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2013 OP
NSA SamKnause Jun 2013 #1
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SamKnause

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1. NSA
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 08:04 PM
Jun 2013

Patriots

Daniel Ellsberg
Bradley Manning
Edward Snowden
Aaron Swartz (deceased)

Patriots of truth

Julian Assange
Wikileaks
Anonymous
Democracy Now
Link TV

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