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In reply to the discussion: The Errors of Edward Snowden and His Global Hypocrisy Tour - Vanity Fair [View all]haele
(12,646 posts)I do have a lot of issues exposing our foreign surveillance. I did with the Shrub and Valerie Plame (how many people do you think that killed?) and I do with exposing the "spy game" in China and other countries at this time - which will probably also kill people or cause deaths in the future.
That's the issue with the article.
Our soi-naive "hero/whistle-blower" Snowden might be due for an attaboy or two - I won't argue the potential unconstitutionality of Prism and Solarwind and the over-reaches of the corporate wing of the NSA; but he also committed at least three significantly serious honest National Security aw-shits that he does need to take responsibility for.
I don't like the fact he's running from those like a giggling Robin Hood, throwing everything to the wind and sowing chaos in his wake instead of thinking about how to fix or mitigate the current vicious confluence of national security, privacy, and profits.
I hold the same viewpoint when it comes to Cheney and co. I don't care if TPTB are hypocritical corporatists, but I'm not. Everything's not okay just because we do it.
Haele