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In reply to the discussion: Why did it take a Democratic administration for Snowden to become a dissident? [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)237. You bring out my self-righeteousness with your condescending crap
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Why did it take a Democratic administration for Snowden to become a dissident? [View all]
YoungDemCA
Feb 2014
OP
The NSA's activities only became problematic when that black guy got into office.
baldguy
Feb 2014
#1
Snowden was described by his NSA colleagues as a "genius among geniuses"
riderinthestorm
Feb 2014
#293
snort... okay. Snowden's own colleagues call him a genius among geniuses
riderinthestorm
Feb 2014
#307
I am not trying to denigrate Snowden. I'm highlighting what I think are glaring paradoxes.
randome
Feb 2014
#308
So you're judging Snowden on some kind of rumoured lack of friends??!!
riderinthestorm
Feb 2014
#315
Yeah, I might say that too if somebody used a shareware webcrawler to hack my box
Recursion
Feb 2014
#351
I will agree that there are all sorts of oddballs in both the MIC in general and Intel.
MADem
Feb 2014
#334
You're right. Before that he was an actual agent for the CIA, an organization he's said nothing on
Recursion
Feb 2014
#186
Actually, he never worked for the NSA. He worked for a contractor who had a
underthematrix
Feb 2014
#309
Is it ironic that in your claim that Snowden is racist you yourself just made a racist statement?
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#15
I'm saying you just made a racist statement. Which you shouldn't be happy about.
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#18
Is your original post sarcastic? Because, if it was, then I suspect I am wrong.
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#29
You mean you never heard of all the other Whistle Blowers during the Bush years? Where
sabrina 1
Feb 2014
#25
But not Snowden...he thought people like him should have their testicles removed then!
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#74
No. It doesn't. But it matters if he's a hypocritical GOP mole with a political agenda.
BlueCaliDem
Feb 2014
#359
No. In this case, it's apropos. And it doesn't matter if it's considered an insult by some.
BlueCaliDem
Feb 2014
#383
Again-- he was not working for the NSA in any meaningful sense in the Bush years.
Marr
Feb 2014
#205
He was a security guard. If you're asking why he didn't go public during the Bush years...
Marr
Feb 2014
#275
*I'M* the one dealing in fantasy, because I find your asinine Tom Clancy time-travel conspiracy
Marr
Feb 2014
#301
Let's take this as fact, is the argument now that in 2006 Snowden was attempting to steal files
TheKentuckian
Feb 2014
#294
Why do you think he had the clairvoyance to know to go after Obama in 2006?
TheKentuckian
Feb 2014
#386
Occam's razor. Langley benefits from this directly; no need to look for another patron
Recursion
Feb 2014
#331
Not really, though. Langley's provincial attitude towards their personnel jackets is what
MADem
Feb 2014
#337
How often are "security guards" given the Keys to the Kingdom? n/t
cherokeeprogressive
Feb 2014
#209
I'm not interested in gossip. I'm interested in what is going on in this country and how
sabrina 1
Feb 2014
#267
Naw. Just because you don't understand a post, doesn't mean it's "flawed".
BlueCaliDem
Feb 2014
#354
To have a modest, underwhelming existence until the day I take my last breath.
TheMathieu
Feb 2014
#49
Does Snowden's personal beliefs or history have any bearing on whether his claims are accurate?
NuclearDem
Feb 2014
#6
I am not the one usually saying that word....but I like tossing it back in faces though!
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#90
I don't remember Obama saying it was Snowden that spurred him...do you?
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#106
Anyone with a lick of sense knows nothing would happen if he did it during a Republican admin?
Fumesucker
Feb 2014
#7
No, it is about exposing a power hungry, renegade federal agency, bent on collecting information
RC
Feb 2014
#8
Snowden is an activist. Not for a second do I believe his current scheme is about
Thinkingabout
Feb 2014
#9
the volume of bad snowden or greenwald ops is directly proportional to the damage from
Warren Stupidity
Feb 2014
#12
Fuck Ron Paul lovin' Snowden and his "God complex".. all he's spewed from Russia is hate and lies
Cha
Feb 2014
#14
I'm still waiting for an explanation of how this invalidates anything reported from the leaks.
NuclearDem
Feb 2014
#17
Right...you wouldn't care if it were Rand Paul himself...yeah we get that....
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#78
You prefer being lied to instead of knowing the truth? Ok, good to know. I feel differently, though.
Electric Monk
Feb 2014
#100
Anyone who opens his mouth and crazy stuff flies out....I usually consider pretty screwwy!
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#162
So I should reject ideals, principles, and positions based upon who agrees with it?
Savannahmann
Feb 2014
#23
Well around here...if you don't toe the line on EVERY issue you get tossed overboard...so...
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#79
THIS is NOT courage...it may be alot of things...but courage it is not...
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#80
Pussy Riot went to jail. When they were freed, they still spoke up against Putin.
randome
Feb 2014
#64
Snowden made it about himself.. constantly coming out and harping about fucking bullshit.
Cha
Feb 2014
#130
Snowden has a god/persecution complex and "everything out of his mouth is fucking nuts".
Cha
Feb 2014
#268
What you so conveniently forget is that we stand for those rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights.
Th1onein
Feb 2014
#220
And, that is where Snowden's god complex comes into play. He's a hypocrite as he sits there in
Cha
Feb 2014
#326
Was Obama sympathetic to the opposition (the NSA) before he became president?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2014
#137
Do you know that the NSA info gathering story came out first during the Bush years?
brush
Feb 2014
#159
Did you not understand that I said Snowden's reveal of domestic spying is a good thing
brush
Feb 2014
#193
Broadly, in the CIA/NSA street fight, Democrats prefer the NSA and Republicans the CIA
Recursion
Feb 2014
#183
But again...this surprise that he gets this kind of reaction on DU is really kind of weak sauce
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#168
The CIA called him a thief when he worked in Europe, so long as we're in the Facts Business, here.
MADem
Feb 2014
#178
After a career in military intelligence Snowden's leaks are a revelation to you . . .
brush
Feb 2014
#185
Hey, thanks. It's just one of the tidbits of my past that makes me...interesting.
randome
Feb 2014
#59
I have been saying Aspergers all along...but not emotionally or mentally wrong
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#88
I'll point out that I'm only responding to you because you saw fit to call me out on something...
Spider Jerusalem
Feb 2014
#243
I think its Aspergers....and that means that he doesn't really understand what is going on in
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#86
Give it a rest. You're only making yourself look petty. I'll leave it at that.
Comrade Grumpy
Feb 2014
#274
You're the fourth Bill Frist in this thread. Those law schools teach all sorts of things these days.
DisgustipatedinCA
Feb 2014
#253
keep quoting corporate paycheck cashing libertarians with vicious, fascist bed partners
reddread
Feb 2014
#230
"Everything out of Snowden's Mouth is Fuckin' Nuts" Ed has a god-complex-he's Putin's Ratfucker
Cha
Feb 2014
#273
Yeah, because only OUR side winning matters. It doesn't matter what they stand for.
Th1onein
Feb 2014
#223
snowden is NOT a dissident. He is a foreign agent, like several GOP members of Congress
underthematrix
Feb 2014
#67
Foreign? Not sure. Pretty sure Langley is pretty happy about what he did, though
Recursion
Feb 2014
#327
Oh, come on now! All the Skull and Bonesmen, oops, sorry, I meant Wiffenpoofs running Langley
Ikonoklast
Feb 2014
#340
another righteous rant. It's sad to see so many defend bad policy just because we have a
liberal_at_heart
Feb 2014
#156
Better question. Why did what's going on in the NSA go on under a Democratic regime?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2014
#164
Seems apt to me, considering what the NSA does at the behest of the regime.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2014
#272
On that note: why not a word about the CIA, which Snowden was actually an agent for?
Recursion
Feb 2014
#182
That is exactly being a spy for the CIA. You should really learn a little more about this
Recursion
Feb 2014
#341
Spies are often responsible for the heating and air conditioning systems. Righhhhht!
Th1onein
Feb 2014
#347
Snowden wasn't responsible for HVAC, but I don't think you understand "diplomatic cover"
Recursion
Feb 2014
#348
So Snowden is a hypocrite for holding different opinions when Bush and Obama did things?
JoeyT
Feb 2014
#192
MOOT MOOT! Sounds like a horn, doesn't it? Fog horn? Train horn? SEE POST #5.
cherokeeprogressive
Feb 2014
#207
Interesting stuff about Snowden. Looks like I would not care for him at all as a person.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Feb 2014
#210
i am pretty sure OBama promised us all a more transparent government
La Lioness Priyanka
Feb 2014
#252
It was also his authorization that led to the Japanese American internments.
Jamastiene
Feb 2014
#284
"If a Republican had done that, Democrats would have been pissed off about it."
OilemFirchen
Feb 2014
#285
I don't think anyone's screwed up his bio. Do you have links to that accusation? nt
riderinthestorm
Feb 2014
#310
Because snowden's a libertarian asshole in the same vein as ron paul and sonny rand.
Cha
Feb 2014
#368
Better question, why are these crimes committed against the people of the US
nadinbrzezinski
Feb 2014
#388