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NSA contractor arrested
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Okay, so this girl was not smart. I don't like the hero talk. She wasn't a whistleblower. She took a classified document out of a government facility for politically motivated payback.
She isn't stopping Trump from doing something illegal. She isn't releasing information that wouldn't be known to a Special Prosecutor or that the American people need to know for their safety. Also, her methodology was idiotic. She didn't redact any of the information that led people immediately back to her. I get whistleblowers and leakers, and I get that they are important. This, however, was careless and I think it'll do more harm than good.
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she's going to sit in prison until Hillary is elected president . . . .
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
 Quote:Watergate pales to what we're confronting now http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/7...l=facebook
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~ Erin Hunter  (June 7, 2017 at 4:46 am)Isis Wrote:(June 7, 2017 at 4:26 am)Tizheruk Wrote: Yeah no but it will be nice to see your dear leader behind bars . Best pray treason trials don't expand to Trump supporters . But here's some advice don't drop the soap I was doing a mockery of the MacArthur trials. I was not being serious "Have you now or have you every been a Trump supporter? " Not mention the fact that ye old Newt Gingrich during Trumps campaign called for a similar idea.
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Inuit Proverb  Quote:or that the American people need to know for their safety. Where does it say that we only get to hear information that the government decides we need for our "safety?" And, more to the point, would you really want a fuckhead like the WLB making such a determination? (June 7, 2017 at 5:04 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:or that the American people need to know for their safety. I didn't say any of that. This information does not effect my safety or security, and it was top secret information. As a person who held a Top Secret clearance at one point, I understand why that information is classified the way it was. And that's not the WLB's decision anyhow. Releasing information about how the Russians attempted to access voting officials and electronics makes an attempt to catch them in the act next time much more difficult. I'm all for making the WLB look worse, but this isn't the way.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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Given the political realities of the current millennium we need people like Snowden and Manning to keep these fuckers honest.
No. I am not comfortable relying on the government's determination of what is classified info and what is not. They have abused that trust one time too many. (June 7, 2017 at 6:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Given the political realities of the current millennium we need people like Snowden and Manning to keep these fuckers honest. I agree. My contention is that the government wasn't wrong in this situation.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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June 8, 2017 at 12:42 pm
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2017 at 12:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 7, 2017 at 4:46 am)Isis Wrote:(June 7, 2017 at 4:26 am)Tizheruk Wrote: Yeah no but it will be nice to see your dear leader behind bars . Best pray treason trials don't expand to Trump supporters . But here's some advice don't drop the soap It's happened before, not exactly our finest hours (or maybe they are, lol?)....but it is something that we have a long history of doing. One story goes that Nero's servants were slaughtered and/or ordered to commit suicide. One wonders whether the baker got or really deserved this fate. What one doesn't wonder about..is who it was that would have sealed it for him. Nero. Our country was founded on a moment when fealty to the king, was treason to the nation....and then again that affirmation was made plain, when fealty to ones heritage was treason to the union. / shrugs
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