Snowden Is anybody going to watch?

[slvyj]

No

[Aloha_Shooter]

Damaged our intelligence collection on terrorists and foreign agents? You mean a mass drag net intereception of virtually all U.S. communications. Again, already known prior to Snowden. Still,

I'd rather be a constitutional republic.

I find it ironic that people here act like those programs are desirable. You're a tit hair away from being labeled by the government for intelligence collection in the future.

https://lawfareblog.com/snowden-revelations

Very little of this had anythign to do with US citizens. The line of defense being drawn for Snowden is absolute bovine fecal matter.

[Rumline]

Damaged our intelligence collection on terrorists and foreign agents? You mean a mass drag net intereception of virtually all U.S. communications. Again, already known prior to Snowden.

It may have been known by some people, but many still regarded it as tin-foil-hattery until Snowden's leaks.

IMO Snowden blew it by releasing much more than just "whistleblower" material. Some of what he revealed was good, but a lot of it was damaging to US security interests with no benefit to the American people.

[BushMasterBoy]

CIA world fact book calls the United States a "federal presidential republic". They wouldn't mislead us would they?

https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...k/geos/us.html

[spqrzilla]

foxtrot - that the NSA is actually conducting surveillance on US citizens does not mean that Snowden was not a Russian agent.

I've linked to John Schindler's articles. He makes detailed arguments based published facts. I've not seen anyone actually refute his points.