Snowden: I Didn’t Reveal Any Operations Against ‘Legitimate’ Military Targets

[ProSense]

Snowden: I Didn’t Reveal Any Operations Against ‘Legitimate’ Military Targets

In an open-to-the-public live chat on The Guardian's website on Monday, Edward Snowden, the self-proclaimed source of recently leaked top secret National Security Agency documents, said the documents he released to the media "did not reveal any US operations against legitimate military targets."

"I pointed out where the NSA has hacked civilian infrastructure such as universities, hospitals, and private businesses because it is dangerous," Snowden wrote. "These nakedly, aggressively criminal acts are wrong no matter the target. Not only that, when NSA makes a technical mistake during an exploitation operation, critical systems crash. Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting? So we can potentially reveal a potential terrorist with the potential to kill fewer Americans than our own Police? No, the public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless."

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/snowden-i-didnt-reveal-any-operations-against-legitimate

[onehandle]

1. Well... He's the GED armed 'expert.'

Somebody out there is saying, 'Let's dump the body when we dropped off Bin Laden.'

[99Forever]

7. And precisely who...

... vetted, hired, and gave access to supposedly "top secret" information to this supposedly "awful person"?

Hmmmmmm?

[uponit7771]

2. NOW where SUPPOSED to believe he knew which targets where or weren't legitimate?! This guy is nuts

[BeyondGeography]

3. Someone take this boy's shovel away from him

Greenwald, have a heart.

[Wait Wut]

4. Ditto.

He's not helping himself, at all. He's starting to sound like a lunatic. It could just be nerves, which would be understandable, but he needs to stop talking.

[pnwmom]

5. He is unaware that there isn't a firm line between the Communist party

and "private" businesses and the universities.

[Scurrilous]

6. Kick