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Strategist says

http://www.forwardprogressives.com/let-me-show-why-edward-snowden-traitor-not-patriot/

This article is nonsense written by a moron.

From the article

Except that’s not all he stole, nor is it all that he’s leaked.

1. Edward Snowden stole nothing. He copied text revealing criminal activity along with mundane items and he let the press sort out what the public needed to know rather than making that decision unilaterally himself. The government lost no property and therefore nothing was stolen. To call it theft is a bold-face lie.

2. Giving all the material to the press was the right thing to do. Transparency in government means that the press must have access to all information in order to determine what is criminal wrongdoing and what isn't. Attackers of Snowden have no problem with government agencies like the FBI and the CIA having access to all information including the nudie pictures on your phone in order to determine if those .jpg files are just dick picts and pussy shots or are nuclear weapon plans or terrorist attack planes. Well honey, the same goes for the press needing access to all the files to determine if something is a legitimate national secret or a criminal coverup of widespread illegal activity. Consider the press to be the FBI and CIA responsible to investigating the government.

3. Extracting all the data was the only practical thing to do. Snowden couldn't shift through gigabytes of text, reading it all to decide what snippets should be copied and what should not.

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4. Those who committed crimes against the American people by illegal spying are the ones who are traitors. They literally betrayed the American public, the Constitution, and every principle we claim to cherish. They undermined our republic by turning it into a police state very similar to Nazi Germany where the national police have no accountability and can arbitrarily seize possessions and people, who often get no trial or even charges pressed but are imprisoned without the right to trial. That's motherfucking treason. That's domestic terrorism. It is literally inflicting terror onto the American public who now have no idea when the Gestapo will come for their families. And the American Gestapo has imprisoned, tortured, and killed innocent people because, well somebody with a petty grudge said they were terrorists so better safe than sorry.

First things first: free all the drug dealers. After all, customer support is most important.

I am not sure if he is a traitor or a national hero for exposing something we all knew. But he has told Russia how to manipulate our voting system for the presidency.

Edward Snowden has far more of a case than Manning. Snowden revealed mass surveillance well beyond that authorized by the Patriot Act, to the extent the 4th Amendment no longer exists in some circles.

Snowden literally defended the Constitution.

Obama just expanded who can receive this information "If intel agencies happen to undercover criminal information" in the course of their analysis.

Not even 1% of Section 213 (or is it 215?) Patriot Act authorized warrantless searches are for terrorism.

T L Lipsovich says

Snowden literally defended the Constitution.

And defending the Constitution is defending America. Snowden is far more of a hero than Chris Kyle ever could be.