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In reply to the discussion: Open Letter to Snowden/Greenwald demonizers. Please make up your mind. Which is it? [View all]gcomeau
(5,764 posts)9. He did not expose the existence...
...of any illegal scandalous activity. The existence of the program was known and legally authorized.
BEING known and legally authorized removed any justification for any claim that exposing classified details about how that program is executed was some kind of righteous act of whistleblowing.
To put it in even simpler terms...
Everyone fucking knows the Pentagon is developping new stealth strike fighters. Leaking the fucking technical plans is still fucking traitorous.
Understand? Yeah... it can be, and is, BOTH of your listed points.
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Open Letter to Snowden/Greenwald demonizers. Please make up your mind. Which is it? [View all]
99th_Monkey
Jun 2013
OP
The more we learn, the more we realize that not prosecuting the war criminals was an historical
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#61
Mostly #1, though telling China which of their computers we've hacked goes into #2 territory
Recursion
Jun 2013
#4
Imagine what a DU member who is a cop, military, SS, CIA, FBI, NSA plant would be doing and saying.
L0oniX
Jun 2013
#25
Nicely put. "We're supposed to be the 'good guys', so we should act like it." nt
99th_Monkey
Jun 2013
#51
The OP was about Snowden & Greenwald. Is the ACLU asking for a pardon for Snowden?
baldguy
Jun 2013
#31
Give them a break. At some point they'll tighten up the talking points and they'll all be on the
Luminous Animal
Jun 2013
#13