(February 24, 2017 at 11:39 am)Shell B Wrote: I feel like the reality is that he's both. He's a bit of a traitor, but that's not *always* a bad thing.
As for your OP, yeah, spying on the baddies isn't a problem. That's not what Snowden leaked. It's that they were spying on fucking all of us. That's worse than the shit that made us rebel against England by miles. The founding fathers would have shit a motherfucking collective brick. Our government was doing something very wrong. They got caught. Boofuckinghoo.
Worse. They lied about it.
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/304009...gram-began-
Quote:Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Clapper denied allegations by panel members the NSA conducted electronic surveillance of Americans on U.S. soil.
"Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" committee member Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked Clapper during the March 12 hearing.
In response, Clapper replied quickly: "No, sir."
"There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect [intelligence on Americans], but not wittingly," the U.S. intelligence chief told Wyden and the rest of the committee.
I submit that what Clapper did was far worse than what Snowden did.
