Re: Snowden/NSA
Daniel Ellsberg has defended Edward Snowden's decision to flee and said "The country I stayed in was a different America".
Snowden has no reasonable expectation to be treated fairly in the United States. James Clapper has yet to be indicted for perjury, which indicates this is not about breaking the color of law, it's about a political agenda. Bradley Manning was badly mistreated and placed in solitary confinement.
That said, I for one surely wouldn't want to spend the rest of my life in Russia.
As much as I am in favor of Snowden and Greenwald, I really can't take this claim too seriously. I can't see them holding something like this in reserve unless it's something between countries (i.e. the USA spying on another country, something of that nature). If it had something to do with human rights violations against the American people, it would have been already published. I heard the excuse that they want to create a "narrative" by gradually disclosing information, but I'm just not buying it. The first thing that comes to mind is when Wikileaks or another whistleblower agency said they had all these damning documents from the big banks, but I don't think we ever got to see those.
Originally posted by Kalalau
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Snowden has no reasonable expectation to be treated fairly in the United States. James Clapper has yet to be indicted for perjury, which indicates this is not about breaking the color of law, it's about a political agenda. Bradley Manning was badly mistreated and placed in solitary confinement.
That said, I for one surely wouldn't want to spend the rest of my life in Russia.
Originally posted by Kalalau
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