The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell.Read the rest HERE and listen to Snowden's Guardian interview below:
Since Snowden came forward, there has been debate on both sides of this issue. My brother who is as conservative as I am asked me this:
How would you have felt if this came out during the Reagan, or Bush 1/2 Presidencies? He went on to say he trusted all 3 of those men. If someone had come out with this back then, he would have felt the country was betrayed by the Whistleblower because of his trust in those men in their doing WHAT EVER IT TOOK to keep us safe.He asked me then, Is this more about the surveillance or more about not trusting Obama to use this information for the protection of our country?
I have to admit, my brother got me thinking.
Here are some others on this issue:
So is it possible, It's not so much about the Message (NSA surveillance) than the Messenger (Obama)?
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For me, it's about not being able to trust the Obama government. I understand why they collect the info, but I also do think it is becoming more and more intrusive.
ReplyDeleteBUT, Bush was an honorable man with honorable intentions and unless you were afflicted with BDS, I think most Americans knew that.
Obama is clearly NOT a man with honorable intentions--as we've seen time and time again! So right now, I'm more scared of my own government as I've ever been. Corruption is running rampant in the administration from a to z.
Now yesterday we learn that the state dept squashed serious investigations into misconduct. No one even bats an eye anymore at this stuff!
-Martha
I have asked myself this already. I am still not certain to have an absolute opinion about the data mining, but I do think Americans have a right to know how intrusive these things are. I also would feel better about it it without the IRS stuff going on. I believe that Obama probably stole the election by deliberately suppressing the ability of grassroots organizations most likely to support Romney to protect donors names and raise money. We also see the deliberate leaking of the NOM donors to gay rights groups through the IRS, with no one apparently responsible and no criminal prosecution as there should be. Such data is invaluable and likely to be misused in the wrong hands. I do not trust my gov't and I absolutely don't want them involved in my healthcare in any way!
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I just read a thought provoking post about this by John in the Article 6 blog. I encourage everyone hear to go and read it. I think he's onto something....
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Here not hear. duh!
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ReplyDeleteTea Party also needs to file a class action lawsuit. Go Rand Paul.
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establishment.
They aren't just listening to us. They are storing everything about us, and sticking their evil slimy fingers into our brains! I feel like cussing.
ReplyDeleteDirector of National Intelligence BIG liar under oath. This evil surveillance has film "Minority Report" written all over it. They aren't just listening to us, they are STORING everything from our 'brains,' the way we feel and think, ALL the events of our lives, even our dreams if we've discussed those.
ReplyDeleteFOR how long? Not nearly good enough Gov! Clapper doing nervous ticks. He's bad news. Trust them? No way. Founding Fathers warned us.
Plus we KNOW government will use information in illicit ways to bribe, blackmail, and harass americans. We have watched the 1984 Big-Brother's-Watching-you IRS.
NOBODY is worthy of this kind of power, especially not mr fraud and mr phony-christian himself.
"No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one." ~Thomas Jefferson
ReplyDelete"Let the national government be entrusted with the defence of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations; the State governments with the civil rights, laws, police, and administration of what concerns the State generally." ~Thomas Jefferson
ReplyDeleteObama has busied himself trying to make the federal government a police state. Get rid of Homeland Security.
I agree with Snowden on some things. BUT just being right about a couple of points does not justify causing what has been officially categorized as "exceptionally grave damage".
ReplyDeleteNot everyone who opposes Obama, believe it or not, automatically a decent person. There was a right way to go about voicing his complaint, namely going through the IG or through his congressman (being military, I've definitely seen commanders jump to when one of the above come nosing around!). Instead, he took the same course Benedict Arnold took, inflicting harm on the country. Regardless of the rectitude of the belief, this behavior must be repudiated!
If you have information that is a threat to the government and system in place, and the President of the United States, you don't play nice, particularly when you've been a first hand witness to their blackmail.
ReplyDeleteNO. Our government has been seen to give people mind altering drugs. They'd do anything to protect the nazi powers they're grabbing right now. NO. This man is not a casual bystander. He's in GRAVE danger.
Obama and his administration are intent upon controlling us. They will do anything to stop Snowden from exposing them.
ReplyDeleteRidiculous to claim Snowden is Benedict Arnold. Proves an irrational bias.
What we've already seen in the IRS high crimes shows us the vast cancer afflicting our former republic. No, the government cannot be allowed to spy on us. Obama even tells us (ludicrous) that the war on terror is over. So he ought to dismantle and destroy that database he has on all of us.
I hope we can benefit from Snowden's valiant risk. From the sound of it, one post above is from some Obama lover. Opposing Obama may not prove a person is good, but backing Obama's power grab here IS evil.
ReplyDeleteSnowden is a whistleblower. His primary allegiance is to our Constitution, and he deserves our protection, not accusations. Obama is regularly assaulting the Constitution. This is not a surprise to find out there is proof. We need to stop his invasion of our privacy now.
The NSA building in Utah needs to be dismantled. No pious cloak for this sinister ordeal and conceit.
Regularly we see an indifference from Obama to protect Americans. He failed us all at Fort Hood, Benghazi, and the Boston Marathon. He's not keen to defend us.
What's the government agraid of? Let's find out what Snowden has. Only the guilty need fear, right?
Fort Hood shooter openly proclaimed his jihad, and it was ignored by government officials. There is no need for them snooping on all of us. They don't even protecting us when it is easy.
ReplyDeleteThey don't even protect us when they get the information handed to them on a silver plate.
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