Given A Binary Choice... Who Do You Trust More... Snowden, Or The NSA ???

[WillyT]

No obligatory other this time.

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[grasswire]

1. Question Authority

My mama taught me.

[mindwalker_i]

13. Question reality

Demand answers. This falls under that principle

[PuraVidaDreamin]

2. No hesitation

Snow den!

[Kaleva]

3. Can't say I fully trust the NSA but I don't give a rat's as about Snowden either.

[Gravitycollapse]

4. Let's see: An agency of espionage with nearly zero public accountability...

Or a guy who gave up a fantastic life to live a shitty, hunted existence in Russia so that the world would know about the transgressions of the former?

How is that even a contest?

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. I would put my "trust" in neither ...

The NSA does what it is supposed to do ... spy. That gives me pause against "trust"; however, they do so with a measure of Congressional and Judicial Oversight, just like what's supposed to happen in our form of government.

Snowden took it upon himself to steal classified documents and release them to media outlets, including foreign outlets, then took refuge in Russia ... that gives me pause to trust; however, the only oversight that restrains him is his own conscience ... that gives me more pause to trust.

[Dawgs]

19. I'm with you.

[WillyT]

6. C'Mon Everybody... I've Been Informed Here That DU Polls Don't Count If We Don't Get Enough Votes...

Apparently if you get over a hundred or two votes in any direction, that does not count because it under represents the will of DU.

So call your family, your friends, your neighbors, PM everybody here... get 'em on the record.

Let's see where you stand!

BTW - As a country, we are lucky to get HALF of eligible voters to come out and vote during a Presidential Election... even less during a Mid-Term Election... our current problem.

And as the saying goes... "If you don't vote, you don't get to complain."

[WillyT]

7. Oh... I'll Be Kickng This A While... Gotta Get Those Votes Up...

[Autumn]

8. Snowden, all the way Willy

kick

[Uncle Joe]

9. I trust Snowden more.

Thanks for the thread, WillyT.

[840high]

17. Yes. No hesitation on my part.

[dawg]

10. Clapper already lied to Congress.

I'm sure there are many good people at the NSA, and that for most of them, their primary purpose is to catch bad guys and protect us. But the current situation is ripe for abuse.

Hell, Snowden is proof of that, even if you consider him a spy and a traitor.

[Separation]

11. :)

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[Uncle Joe]

12. Hey, WillyT

How's the weather were you are?

[awoke_in_2003]

14. Not quite sure about Snowden...

but I definitely don't trust the NSA, so that is where my vote went.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

15. The NSA, and it's not even close

Snowden is a traitor, and I hope he eventually gets to spend 23 hours a day staring at blank walls in an ADMAX.

[bananas]

16. 96% for Snowden - k&r! nt

[aikoaiko]

18. Snowden is erratic, the NSA is consistent

[Arkana]

20. Neither.

Snowden's motives have become personal and this "leak a little, watch the press shit itself with glee" thing he's got going shows he cares way more about the attention than he does about exposing the truth. He's letting the Russian government use him, and quite frankly the US is a paradise of transparency compared to the police state that is Russia right now.

That being said, what the NSA is doing scares the bejesus out of me, and someone needed to speak up.

[justiceischeap]

21. I can't, in good faith, vote for a binary choice

because this is not a black & white matter. Do I think the NSA is culpable of wrong-doing? Yes, I do and it started shortly after 9/11 and has continued since.

Do I think Snowden's motives were pure? Hell no. I think he's culpable of trying to tarnish the Obama administration and that his actions are tainted at best, nefarious at worst. I don't think he was motivated by patriotism in the least.

[Octafish]

22. I respect the DUers who voted for NSA.

Those who support the NSA on threads up and down DU but don't want to put their feelings down in this OP, where their 2 cents can be tabulated and compared, not so much.