Snowden says he will hand documents over to the foreign press of whatever country is involved,

[pnwmom]

for them to decide whether the documents should be published or not, without regard to US interests.

Is he now trying to get charged with treason?

http://americablog.com/2013/06/snowden-plans-more-leaks-about-us-spying-abroad-will-let-local-press-decide-whether-to-publish.html

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“If I have time to go through this information, I would like to make it available to journalists in each country to make their own assessment, independent of my bias, as to whether or not the knowledge of US network operations against their people should be published.”

Note that Snowden is now admitting a few things. First, that that he plans on releasing the details of US intelligence efforts against far more countries. Who’s next? Exposing US efforts against Iran, against Cuba, against North Korea? Against Syria?

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After he sorts through the documents, Edward Snowden says he will let journalists in those countries decide whether it’s safe and appropriate to print the classified documents he took from American intelligence, and whether the information he’s released poses a danger to our country. He wouldn’t want to let his “bias” as a former NSA employee, someone who actually understands the damage these documents can pose to American lives, interfere with the determination of the damage these documents might pose to American lives. He’d rather let non-experts, foreign experts, decide if information they don’t fully understand puts American lives at risk.

Does Edward Snowden really think the press in any foreign country is going to show a lack of “bias,” as he puts it, as to whether the classified information in their hands is damaging to the United States’ national security, or that it will put American or other lives at risk? Who is the Chinese press going to side with? How about the Russian media? How about Iran? Or North Korea? Or Syria?

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[dipsydoodle]

1. Good.

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[Arctic Dave]

2. Leeeet the sun shine...

Sooner the better.

[newfie11]

4. Damn right!!!! Nt

[krawhitham]

3. It became treason when

He got the job for the sole season of stealing NSA data

[Hekate]

5. I think that pretty much fits the definition

[kelliekat44]

6. BINGO!!! nt

[Hekate]

7. I wonder how naive Snowden really is about how the government works? Putting together...

... some of the pieces we know about him, what we have is this:

high school GED
highly intelligent
high-achieving but narrowly focused
self taught (and/or learned on the job)
seems to have a cyber-based/internet-based ethos, rather than a recognizable political ideology

What he has missed in his education, quite likely, is the classroom work we used to call Civics, as well as history of any kind. What he has missed is real-life experience outside of the logic of his head and his chosen work.

Greenwald, as we know, has an agenda of his own. I don't know how those two hooked up, but Greenwald may have filled a gap in Snowden's thinking and provided him with a focus for his anger. Or maybe Snowden's thoughts had already clicked into place, and Greenwald just presented him with an ideology that sounded like it fit.

I'm just trying to work out why it is that Snowden seems to be all over the place, and not just geographically.

Hekate

[pnwmom]

8. Something I've thought about him, that would actually mitigate his responsibility in my mind,

is the possibility that he might be somewhere on the autism spectrum -- explaining why he appears to be such a black and white thinker and why he didn't seem to anticipate the reaction he's been getting from the public.

In my community there's a higher number of Asperger's people than average, mostly because of the computer industry. If that is his situation it could explain some things. And whatever made him what he is, the government better figure out how they can keep classified information safer from now on.

[siligut]

12. Yes, he may be on the spectrum

One of his attorneys also said he was a kid. Though he said it was because Ed prefers Pepsi to wine, I think it may have something to do with his naivete.

[pnwmom]

13. Yes -- naiveté is one of the features, and does seem characteristic of him. n/t

[Blue_Roses]

20. I've been thinking the same thing...

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possible Asperger's. Several things come to mind. But, it's hard to know for sure with such limited information.(on his medical history).

Asperger Syndrome

A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia.
Asperger Syndrome

Autistic spectrum disorder - Asperger

Asperger Syndrome is often considered a high functioning form of autism. It can lead to difficulty interacting socially, repeat behaviors, and clumsiness.

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Asperger syndrome is a pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) or autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The main difference between Asperger syndrome and autistic disorder is that children with Asperger syndrome do not have speech or cognitive delays.
The condition appears to be more common in boys than in girls.
Although people with Asperger syndrome often have difficulty socially, many have above-average intelligence. They may excel in fields such as computer programming and science. There is no delay in their cognitive development, ability to take care of themselves, or curiosity about their environment

more...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002516/#adam_001549.disease.symptoms

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Just to be clear, this could possibly explain some of his baffling and bizarre behavior. Not diagnosing

[pnwmom]

21. Right. And some of the ways he's described could just be describing

a shy person (not maintaining eye contact, for example). But I've wondered. It would also fit with him being clearly so bright and yet having difficulty getting through school.

[HipChick]

9. China already has the contents of his hard drive

[pnwmom]

10. But he probably has multiple copies on thumb drives.

At least that's the rumor.

[treestar]

11. How anybody can be defending him -

This is just ridiculous.

[siligut]

14. Because we are against the spying

Even though it makes Obama's job even harder and it may create difficult foreign relations, the NSA has gotten out of control.

[pnwmom]

15. We need to distinguish between spying on foreign countries

and spying on our own citizens. Too many people are making incredibly flaky calls for pure transparency and no international spying.

As if China and Russia will stop because we do. . . .

[siligut]

16. Right, the big deal is that US citizens are being spied on by the NSA

And all of our electronic communications are being recorded and stored.

[treestar]

17. Using the term that we are all being "spied on"

is gross exaggeration.

[TheKentuckian]

19. Meh...you think the citizens of our friends and allies like being spied on in our dragnet?

Everybody isn't China and Russia and China would be very difficult to prove on paper as an enemy at all. You look at the trade, the money lent and borrowed, they have most favored status, we buy their shit, they can buy our property, they have McDonald's and KFC.

That war is sub-zero.

[struggle4progress]

18. Bless his pointy little head, he's a brilliant computer nerd, a dogmatic libertarian, and a nitwit