Snowden swipped password from NSA worker... (employees, constitution, document, against)

[Hyperthetic]

Originally Posted by Grizzmeister

This article confirms that whistleblower Edward Snowden performed a public service.

There's private, there's public, and then there's government service.

Hierarchically, the government is at the bottom.

[AeroGuyDC]

Originally Posted by Tilt11

Exclusive: Snowden Swiped Password From NSA Coworker - NBC News


I keep hearing this guy is supposed to be some type of hero, but the guy stole someones password. I hope he is never allowed back in this country without facing trial.

Why would you trust an investigation by the NSA? You realize they have an agenda, right?

Don't be so naïve.

[texdav]

Snowden is a snake in the grass ;no one would want for a friend. He broke the law now pays the consequences.

[Hyperthetic]

Originally Posted by texdav

Snowden is a snake in the grass ;no one would want for a friend. He broke the law now pays the consequences.

After he found out NSA was in breach of law, Snowden breached his contract with NSA.

Who breached first?

NSA

Illegal contracts cannot be enforced in a court of law.

Ain't no court can handle this.

[Deezus]

Originally Posted by T-310

Its treason, for which he needs to be tried, convicted and shot.

Back in the 50s or 60s the CIA would've already whacked him for this sort of espionage and betrayal...now we've gone soft.

[Grizzmeister]

Originally Posted by texdav

Snowden is a snake in the grass ;no one would want for a friend. He broke the law now pays the consequences.

I would be honored to have Edward Snowden as my friend because I appreciate what he's done to preserve our liberties.

[Hyperthetic]

Originally Posted by Grizzmeister

I would be honored to have Edward Snowden as my friend because I appreciate what he's done to preserve our liberties.

Some people don't need liberties, they got favors.

[nei]

Originally Posted by Deezus

Back in the 50s or 60s the CIA would've already whacked him for this sort of espionage and betrayal...now we've gone soft.

reminds me of the communist-era joke:

Stalin is dead and things have begun to lighten up a bit relatively speaking. An old couple live in an apartment in Moscow and she sends him down to buy some meat for supper. After queueing for the obligatory three hours he gets to the counter and the woman says 'No more meat, meat finished'. He cracks and starts raving 'I fought in the Revolution, I fought for Lenin in the First World War and for Stalin in the Second World War and we are still in this ****?' One of the leather-jacketed brigade takes him on one side and says 'Look old man you know you can't talk like this. Just think, a few years ago you would have been shot for saying these things.' The old man trudges home. His wife seeing him empty-handed says 'Run out of meat again have they?' He says: 'It's worse than that, they've run out of bullets.'

[BentBow]

Originally Posted by T-310

Its treason, for which he needs to be tried, convicted and shot.

Treason is when Congress has declared war.
Espionage and collaboration maybe, had he exposed crucial military intelligence, but that has not been the case.

Being given and swiping, are two totally different aspects of possession. You can't use one to describe the other, unless the intent is to frame the innocent.

[BentBow]

Snowden, proved to the PEOPLE of the USA, that Clapper was lying about the NSA and the attack on 4th Amendment, to the US Constitution.