President George W. Bush — whose administration either looked the other way or was asleep at the switch on 9/11 — pushed through congressional legislation in 2006 and 2007 that immunized telecom and internet providers from liability in return for their compelled cooperation with the feds. So, when the feds come calling, the providers have no choice but to open the front door. The feds are now permanently located at all service providers’ mainframe computer sites.
I assume this is all still running. Wonder what it would take for the law to finally be enforced and shut it down.
And of course, he’s not a hero
My brother in Satan, Snowden didn’t like government surveillance so much that he willingly fled to Putin’s Russia. At this point, calling Snowden an American hero is like calling washed-up 1980s action star Steven Seagal an American hero. They’ve both moved to Russia for sketchy reasons, demonstrating utterly terrible judgement
He’s not even banished from the US. He’s free to come back anytime Putin gives him permission. And one quick point of clarification. He didn’t actually flee to Russia. He just fled the United States ending up in Russia. There are places he would have much rather gone but did not have the opportunity and avoid extradition. And honestly I think at this point he would probably much rather be back here himself. And not the pet /trophy of a murderous autocrat. Honestly I’d like to see him back for multiple reasons myself. And the US minimally sentence him if at all.
A comment from a primary school student, is it all Putin’s fault?! So be it, I will tell you, before he was in Russia, he first visited China, the Chinese did not detain him at their place, interrogated him and let him go… so that you understand, when he arrived in Russia, he was absolutely empty! Empty! And no one is interested. Even Putin said that Snowden had done the wrong thing, that his action was strange. Traitors are not liked anywhere!
The way people glorify him is horrible. There was one pretty questionable NSA program that I agree needed review, but Snowden didn’t just bring that to light; he dumped giant gobs of information on legitimate national security targets, collected properly and legally by our security forces through the appropriate channels. He very literally gave terrorists and terrorist organizations a view into the information we had on them and how they were being tracked, and they acted on that information to make it harder to track them. Then he went off to Russia.
He’s a traitor, not a hero.
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