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2014-01-04 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Fred 2014-01-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 Apparently there are people on the Left who aren't really motivated by Snowden being a traitor to his country. They think we should all be "citizens of the world". Some of them work for the NYT apparently.

Let Snowden stay where he is. In thirty or forty years he should be able to even sing in Russian. Marry a nice Blovatskya and eat some sashlik and settle down. Why in the hell would a man like that ever want to live HERE?

Posted by Spereting Tingle4064 2014-01-04 07:16|| 2014-01-04 07:16|| Front Page Top

#2 It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an Obama.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-04 07:50|| 2014-01-04 07:50|| Front Page Top

#3 I will admit that I am very ambivalent on this whole issue.

The problem I have is that while I don't like the way that Snowden did it, given the seriousness of the anti-constitutional actions of the NSA / gov't, I'm glad that the whistle was blown.

I'm not sure how he should/could have handled it, given the current regime and their media lapdogs, so that the alarm was rung without turning the info over to the enemy.

I'm open to suggestions but personally I am conflicted.

Posted by AlanC 2014-01-04 08:52|| 2014-01-04 08:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Not 'conflicted' here. Good sprouting from bad is not a fluke of nature. Nor is the bad necessarily something to celebrate.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-04 08:57|| 2014-01-04 08:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Snowden is young. He knew it was wrong but not how to deal with it. Besides, right or wrong, he didn't want to end up like Manning, who deserved the treatment he got.

Posted by gorb 2014-01-04 09:11|| 2014-01-04 09:11|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm more curious as to how someone like Snowden ever had the security clearance to access all that data; I sense a conspiracy in which he is just a pawn.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-01-04 10:15|| 2014-01-04 10:15|| Front Page Top

#7 It is my understanding, he worked for the Klingons as a contractor prior to going to work at nsa. He undoubtedly had passed [both locations] a full-scope poly as well. Young people such as this fellow don't generally have much trouble passing poly's or gaining access.....as long as they are truthful. Not much background info for an investigator to sort through. Less/no history - fewer problems, quick and easy cases to process. Older buggers however, that's another story.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-04 10:23|| 2014-01-04 10:23|| Front Page Top

#8 ...and did it in a way that violated the law," Napolitano said in an interview airing on "Meet the Press" this Sunday.

Irony isn't dead yet!

Posted by Raj 2014-01-04 12:27|| 2014-01-04 12:27|| Front Page Top

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