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In reply to the discussion: Fuck... Another Hero Down The Tubes... Must Want His Chops Back... [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)administration was lying, he APOLOGIZED to the American people for not being able to stop them, or have you forgotten? He PLAYED BY THE RULES when the situation was dire enough to break them, with so many lives AND our Civil Rights, at stake. And the War Criminals got their way.
Too bad he played by the rules, although I understand. It takes people of great courage to risk their own lives, careers, freedoms, to do the right thing, as Snowden did.
And Clarke, while admonishing Snowden for NOT playing by the rules, as he did, which would mean Clarke would not KNOW what he clearly finds reprehensible enough to want to change, CONTRADICTS himself by the very fact that he is USING Snowden's information to correct wrong doing.
Now how would he be abe to correct wrong doing if someone had played by the rules, as he did?
If only he, or others who knew what was going on at the time, had had the courage to know that there are times 'in the affairs of men' when 'rules' need to be broken.
He's wrong about Snowden's actions. But he IS a Republican in the end, one with a conscience but not the courage to break the rules when the country is in need of rules being broken.
He APOLOGIZED to the American people, I am repeating that to demonstrate that he knew he had not 'done enough' to warn them about Bush's criminal gang of warmongers. He is in no place to admonish someone who HAS done all they can to warn the American people of the theft of their precious rights.