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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 17 2019, @02:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the will-not-end-well dept.

Update: DannyB adds: United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/edward-snowden-nsa-cbs-this-morning-interview-today-2019-09-16/

When pressed on whether he considers what he did unlawful, Snowden refused to take a position but said "it's not hard to make the argument that I broke the law." He went on to say that the government continues to allege that his disclosures caused harm but, according to Snowden, has yet to show evidence of that harm.

"They never show evidence for it even though we're now more than 6 years on, it would be the easiest thing in the world to show. We've never heard that story," he said. "If they had some classified evidence that a hair on a single person's head was harmed, you know as well as I do, it would be on the front page of The New York Times by the end of the day."

Snowden also took issue with the common refrain that leaking classified documents violated the oath of secrecy he took upon entering the CIA. He said an oath of secrecy does not exist.

"One of the common misconceptions in one of the earlier attacks, that we heard in 2015, that we don't hear of so much anymore is that I violated this oath of secrecy. That does not exist. There is a secrecy agreement, but there is also an oath of service. An oath of service is to support and defend, not an agency, not even the president, it is to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies – direct quote – foreign and domestic. And this begs the question, what happens when our obligations come into conflict."


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 17 2019, @05:40PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 17 2019, @05:40PM (#895286)

    "Keep it rational"

    You first asshole, you start off with "As good, and as bad, as Trump is..."

    Fucking lawl, you disavow him ONLY because otherwise you'd get labeled "batshit crazy" you "both sides"" creep of a human being.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 17 2019, @05:53PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 17 2019, @05:53PM (#895297) Journal

    More like "neither side". I'm a registered Independent, because I don't like either party. That's right, bubba, way back in 1970, I started to dislike the dicks in both parties. By 1974, when I was old enough to vote, I had decided that I couldn't register with either party. Independent - meaning I have no loyalty to either of your two parties in this fucked up "two-party-system".

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday September 17 2019, @06:33PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 17 2019, @06:33PM (#895310) Journal

    It is possible to not be completely totally polarized on everything political.

    Despite all the horrible things I think about Trump (due to his own words and actions), I can still be pleased that he is pro Israel and apparently pro Christian, even if I have my doubts about whether he himself is a Christian. But I cannot really know either way. I can only go by his own words. "I've never asked God for forgiveness", etc.

    Other than that, I disagree with and/or am disgusted and repulsed by everything else he says and does.

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    People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.