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In reply to the discussion: Spies Worry Over 'Doomsday' Cache Stashed By Ex-NSA Contractor Snowden [View all]bemildred
(90,061 posts)69. I suggest you try that and see what happens.
It's been tried already, they are in prison and nobody else got time, or much of anything.
Our government has long since ceased to respect it's own laws, or any laws, except when it is convenient, or not doing so is inconvenient. Expediency rules the day, the law is obscured or hidden, and utter fools are running amuck behind the fog of bullshit served up to us every day.
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big_dog
Nov 2013
OP
Agree, it does the powerful good to know the curtain can be pulled back from time to time
harun
Dec 2013
#64
So much for Snowden doing this to protect American citizens. When will others wake up to the
okaawhatever
Nov 2013
#9
Care to share any of your "wisdom" or are you just going to make a snide comment and run away?
psychopomp
Dec 2013
#79
What is weird is how people who claim te be hard-nosed realists get all googly-eyed
bemildred
Dec 2013
#77
It is just as unnecessary to call people who point to it's many faults "cynical".
bemildred
Dec 2013
#85
If they wanted what we have here (lunatic consumerism) our climate would crash 30 years sooner.
Sognefjord
Nov 2013
#34
If you believe that you are akin to those who believed Hitler would stop at the Sudetenland.
Sognefjord
Dec 2013
#65
What I said is they break the law when they like, not that they break it all the time.
bemildred
Dec 2013
#89
I notice Bush/Cheney are not hiding in Russia, and nobody in the government seems to care.
bemildred
Nov 2013
#43
It was all too obvious to me that Snowden was likely up to no good, right from the start.
AverageJoe90
Nov 2013
#36
Since they haven't been doing anything wrong, they should have nothing to worry about!
Demeter
Nov 2013
#10
Hint: GWB knew what he was doing. His "dumb guy" act was just a ruse to cover up wrongdoing.
blkmusclmachine
Nov 2013
#14
Check out Operation: Northwoods for some interesting insight into CIA + JFK, and maybe 9/11? here:
blkmusclmachine
Nov 2013
#15
there would be no point to releasing the names of those people except to harm them
yurbud
Nov 2013
#16
me either. Frankly, nothing released so far has done more than confirm what we already knew
yurbud
Nov 2013
#23
Interesting. For the longest time, they said they didn't know what Snowden took
BelgianMadCow
Nov 2013
#24
Damn straight! This guy (hero) just walked out the front door with the NSA Crown Jewels...
NoodleyAppendage
Dec 2013
#62
Well, no. Not if the information were protected with proper security systems.
BlueStreak
Nov 2013
#56
An elite hacker would have a better chance cracking those vulnerabilities
Laughing Mirror
Dec 2013
#71
Yep, plain old social engineering. And a piece of cake to do, it sounds like.
bemildred
Dec 2013
#68
like Wikileaks, I would prefer they get right to the nasty instead of the long striptease
yurbud
Nov 2013
#59