Edward Snowden wants to come home: "I'm not asking for a pass. What I'm asking for is a fair trial"

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[–]Tom_Bombadil 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Snowden was a CIA spook, who ratted out the NSA so the NSA wouldn't be able to spy on them.

He didn't release much that was completely new, other than the fact that even the president is being spied on, which confirms that Bush/Obama are figure heads/puppets. Presidents, are not a real source of US power.

He basically went public with the facts that many "conspiracy theorist" have been stating for decades.

He also allowed the media to normalize domestic spying.

If he wanted to prove his intentions then he should have revealed something new about 9/11, etc. He didn't.

[–]Drewski 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The revelations about metadata collection, PRISM, backdoors in major tech companies, and hacking and spying on our allies were hardly miniscule. Even if many of those things were suspected, it gave the American people and legislators hard proof to confront the NSA and hold them accountable for violating the constitution.

Except we didn't, James Clapper went in front of congress and lied his ass off under oath, and suffered no consequences whatsoever. You can blame the people's apathy, lawmaker's weak spines, dishonest media, whatever but to blame Snowden for not releasing the information you would have preferred seems frivolous.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah well, your assessment is essentially the official MSM talking points on this topic.

If they could suppress the facts of 9/11; where witnesses heard and recorded building explosions, and the building 7 collapse, then why couldn't they suppress this story from two journalists?

Typically, whistle blowers are made into pariahs, who get knocked off, or end up with ruined lives.

Yet they inexplicably made Snowden into a hero.

So, I have serious doubts about what they're claiming. You probably should too.