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Edward Snowden is asking the US president to pardon him based on the morality of his action.
Well, here is a completely opposite view from the other side, so to speak:
http://observer.com/2016/09/were-losing-the-war-against-terrorism/
"Since 9/11, NSA has been the backbone of the Western intelligence alliance against terrorism. Its signals intelligence is responsible for the strong majority of successful counterterrorism operations in the West. More than three-quarters of the time, NSA or one of its close partner Anglosphere spy partners like Britain's GCHQ, develops a lead on a terror cell which is passed to the FBI and others for action which crushes that cell before it kills. If NSA loses the ability to do this, innocent people in many countries will die.
Unfortunately, there's mounting evidence that NSA's edge over the terrorists is waning. It's impossible not to notice that jihadist emphasis on communications security and encryption, which is now gaining ground, began in 2013. That, of course, is when Edward Snowden, an NSA IT contractor, stole something like 1.7 million classified documents from his employer, shared them with outsiders, then defected to Moscow."
"However, our precious edge in the SpyWar is waning fast. We are no longer winning. We're about to hear a great deal of unwarranted praise of Ed Snowden thanks to the hagiographic movie about him by Oliver Stone that's to be released this week. Don't be fooled. Snowden is no hero. In truth, he and his journalist helpers have aided terrorists in important ways. Snowden and his co-conspirators have blood on their hands—and perhaps much more blood soon thanks to their aid to the genocidal maniacs of ISIS."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by art guerrilla on Thursday September 15 2016, @10:34AM
*whoop*whoop* Authoritarian Alert ! ! !
you dingleberry, in these debased times when 'illegal' MEANS NOTHING, UNLESS you are of the 99%; iT IS MORALITY we lack in our leaders (if not ourselves) not some blind obeisance to The Law (which, as mentioned, has become a perverted and corrupted tool of the 1% to fuck the 99%, END OF STORY)...
we are NOT a nation (or planet) of laws, we are a planet dependent upon the whims of approx .1% of the world's population...
but authoritarians do WHATEVER Big Daddy tells them to do, including following unjust laws...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday September 15 2016, @01:38PM
Ding ding ding ding!! We have a winner here!
I'm reminded that you can't legislate morality. We are in a sad situation, in which our populace seems to admire immorality. Trump doesn't seem to have especially high moral standards - and his opponent is the epitome of immorality.
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