• Microw@lemm.ee
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    Wasnt a choice for Snowden. He wanted to go to South America, they trapped him in Russia. Now he has to wave and smile to whatever happens there politically.

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      Snowden could have

      • been an official whistleblower and avoided prosecution

      • leaked only to US papers and avoided prosecution

      • leaked only non-classified information and avoided prosecution

      Snowden sold classified info to enemies of the US. He made his bed.

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        You are so full of shit, it isn’t even funny:

        Snowden could have been an official whistleblower and avoided prosecution

        He literally tried to do that and was ignored.

        leaked only to US papers and avoided prosecution

        You mean like the American Branch of the Guardian and the Washington Post? Aka the Newspaper that he leaked to?

        leaked only non-classified information and avoided prosecution

        Leaking unclassified information about a classified program. How do you imagine that?

        Snowden sold classified info to enemies of the US. He made his bed.

        No, he literally did not.

        How about you stop getting your info from Fox News?

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          Lmao I don’t watch Fox News. I just understand reality.

          If Grusch can leak unclassified info about classified programs, so could Snowden

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            I just understand reality.

            This statement is actually more braindead than the takes on Fox.

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                where is your retort for the other points of yours that were dismantled above?

                It’s very clear that you will believe whatever is most convenient for you to believe.

                Snowden is an American hero, and the war criminals he exposed faced no repurcussions

                There are exactly 0 instances where the information he released got our service members killed, despite what the media tries to suggest. You better believe our Government would be jumping at the chance to show the people how ‘whistleblowing BAD’

                If reality offends you, you may be living outside of it

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        He didn’t sell anything. After trying to raise internal concerns about his work, he leaked classified information to The Washington Post and The Guardian.

        Then the DoJ cancelled his passport due to “espionage” and he got stuck in Russia, where he still lives today.

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        • penguins fly faster than eagles
        • mankind can survive in the vacuum of outer space
        • burritos were invented in a cave in Yugoslavia
        • just saying things doesn’t make them true
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            So how do you propose an ethical person expose corruption to the people of this country when the people in power that he would normally report it to are part of the corruption? The constitutional violations were approved, in secret, all the way up to the President of the United States of America. Or are you of the belief that anything is patriotic & acceptable if you’re in charge and you give it a catchy name like The Patriot Act?

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              You literally have an example of this happening right now with David Grusch and possible embezzlement in the DoD

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            Penguins do fly faster than eagles. For fear of suppression of American news outlets, it makes sense to leak to everyone.