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In reply to the discussion: We can applaud media's greater NSA scrutiny AND think that Snowden's resume/timing/motives [View all]rlegro
(338 posts)It's hard to impute motive. One could even put positive spin on Snowden's past vs. present views re leaks; after all, people's thinking does evolve, people do come to see policies they formerly supported as wrong. I do not really think (as has been suggested elsewhere) that it's likely a secretly planted Bushie outed the NSA to get Obama and then willingly fled the country and ruined his life in important respects to avoid arrest. Not many right-wing intellectual martyrs around, these days. Besides, right wingers at NSA could have handled that mission more adroitly in other ways, without having to sacrifice a friendly. Furthermore, I'm inclined to think the national-industrial intelligence complex wouldn't have preferred or chosen to have all these revelations come out just to "get" a president who arguably was in sync with their operations and who was going to leave office in a couple years anyway.