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In reply to the discussion: I'll never understand people who take the actions of Snowden as a personal insult. [View all]randome
(34,845 posts)10. "If there were any evidence at all..."
That's sort of the point here. Snowden has provided no evidence of his wild claims.
It's only natural when evidence is in short supply, one starts to look at character and motivations.
You keep hearing someone cry 'Wolf!', but no wolf emerges, you start looking at the person saying it.
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I'll never understand people who take the actions of Snowden as a personal insult. [View all]
redgreenandblue
Jun 2013
OP
I don't agree with the course he took (not that he should care about what I think)
Democracyinkind
Jun 2013
#3
One analysis I heard recently theorized that people who don't really understand the leaked info
KurtNYC
Jun 2013
#6
I am the most politically depressed that I have been in a long, long time. If didn't know for
Douglas Carpenter
Jun 2013
#9
I don't see anything to support Snowden's claim that the NSA is spying on everybody.
randome
Jun 2013
#36
It's evidence of something we already knew and had largely dismissed as trivial.
randome
Jun 2013
#95
You point out the possibility of misuse without evidence to suggest it IS being misused.
randome
Jun 2013
#100
No, you are incorrect. In the US, without a warrant, only telephone meta-data is collected,
pnwmom
Jun 2013
#70
Valerie Plame says, "In a way, we as U.S. citizens owe Edward Snowden a thank you....
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jun 2013
#74
That was written only about internal US surveillance and it was written the day before
pnwmom
Jun 2013
#75
No, a winger hack and a paulianite report a story and it's taken at face value and then spun by
uponit7771
Jun 2013
#32
And to me, countries are for the most part arbitrary lines drawn on pieces of paper.
redgreenandblue
Jun 2013
#37
You Quoted " I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world."
Progressive dog
Jun 2013
#59
Yep. With 100's of billions of $ spent, there is no way they overlooked online discussion forums.
GoneFishin
Jun 2013
#90
Conservatives usually have difficulty thinking for themselves, and also have difficulty
Zorra
Jun 2013
#39
I don't care if people commit treason in this country as long as it's in the best interests of the
Apophis
Jun 2013
#42
Over-reaching governments have never been stopped without people breaking the law
Marrah_G
Jun 2013
#91
Flipped> People who are VALIDATED by his actions. Further, you approve of his leaking to China
KittyWampus
Jun 2013
#69
It has nothing to do with his politics, he conspired to do damage to the U.S.
still_one
Jun 2013
#82
In their support of Syria, Iran, and North Korea. China also has the same reasoning.
still_one
Jun 2013
#106
No, what bothers people is that he is releasing our spying methods to Russia and China.
still_one
Jun 2013
#107
nationalists vs. internationalists is as big a part of it as authoritarians vs. anti-authoritarians
carolinayellowdog
Jun 2013
#85