National Security: Britain's MI-6 says that it has had to roll up its spy networks in Russia and China based on the vast intelligence trove leaked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden. So much for his claim he acted on principle.
Speaking to London's Sunday Times, a British intelligence service source warned that the agency had to pull its agents from the field out of fear that their identities were blown to Russia's and China's security agencies. This extraordinary action is a result of information held in the 1.7 million documents stolen and leaked by former NSA contractor Snowden.
That's funny, since Snowden has insisted that he intended only to protect the American public from the depredations of their government and not to disclose information to help our nation's enemies.
Snowden's had a grand old time these past two years from his "asylum" perch in that bastion of liberalism, Russia, insisting that he was really just a whistleblower. His only concern, he said, was protecting the American public from widespread Internet and telephone surveillance by the National Security Agency.
There was some merit to his claims about an overreaching government, and some congressional moves toward reform as a result. But there was absolutely no justification for how he disclosed the information, given that he could have aired his concerns to congressional oversight authorities with no penalties.
Instead, he chose to tell everyone — including our enemies — through leaks in the Guardian, claiming that he was doing it as a matter of principle.
He's been treated like a celebrity ever since, taking interviews and being given space for his views in left-wing newspapers.Read the rest of this IBD editorial HERE.
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