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Former Bush Official Lawrence Wilkerson Says Snowden Has Done a 'Service' (salon.com)
An anonymous reader cites an article on Salon: Lawrence "Larry" Wilkerson, former Bush official finds the revelations made by Edward Snowden a service. In 2013, Edward Snowden, a former contractor with NSA, worked with journalists to reveal a number of mass surveillance programs. In a recent interview, Wilkerson said, "I think Snowden has done a service. I wouldn't have had the courage, and maybe not even the intellectual capacity, to do it the way he did it. There's a logic to what he has done that is impressive. He really has refrained from anything that was truly dangerous, with regard to our security -- regardless of what people say. He has been circumspect about what he's released, how he's released it, who he's released it to."
“Don’t ever count us out, because we are the Greeks on Milos. We have the power, and we will do it.”
He added, “To hell with international law, to hell with human rights, to hell with human dignity.”
We live in a World that's falling apart now - some of it is even our fault (all those decades meddling in the Middle East over oil). China is now the largest economy in the World and with economic power, military power follows.
We have a very crowded World now and things are going to get worse as global warming takes its toll.
I'm afraid the human race will be going backwards in the sense that we'll be having more territorial and resource (fresh water, fishing rights, even arable land) wars. And we'll be dealing with more immigration from the poor countries who want a piece of our pie; which isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the great masses.
We're not headed for Star Trek type of future but a Mad Max one. And he who has the guns is going fare better.
" I wouldn't have had the courage, and maybe not even the intellectual capacity, to do it the way he did it."
maybe?
Pity it's only people who are part of administrations long out of power say things like this.
Edward Snowden blew the whistle on a serious abuse by government. I believe Edward Snowden is a hero for it. Government should not be spying on people. People should not fear their government, their government should fear them.
The truth lies in the middle. Harm was done. Good was done. It just is what it is.
It sounds like Ted Cruz has had his whistle blown by at least five women not named, "Heidi".
http://www.conservativeoutfitt...
http://www.thepoliticalinsider...
http://www.nationalenquirer.co...
You are welcome on my lawn.
AAl over America so there are people the facts and [amazingkreskin.com] that they sideline [n3ro-online.org]. overly morbid and a dead man walking.
Slashdot doesn't even get summaries anymore? Now we just have quotes from somewhere else?
Snowden wasn't at all circumspect. He took a huge data dump containing data dangerous to US national security and handed it off to a foreign national. And he did it all because he's an attention whore. If he had done it the right way, we wouldn't even know his name.
Damage control for the damage control.
A feeble attempt to placate a few people who are catching on to propaganda tactics.
What are we supposed to think? "Some people in the federal government think that mass surveillance is bad so there isn't really much cause for concern or action"?
Recent stories:
NSA Wants To Dump the Phone Records It Gathered Over 14 Years"
"Whistleblower: NSA Is So Overwhelmed With Data, It's No Longer Effective"
These conspicuously attempt to dodge the simple fact that the federal government regularly operates criminally by trying to portray global mass surveillance as ineffective and in need of more funding. To say they operate criminally is an great understatement. The summation of their criminal activity is the threat of the complete destruction of freedom itself.
He basically ran to the other North Korea and started talking about freedom and civil rights without saying anything negative about the place he is in.
If you look at it in a neutral way, Snowden did indeed do a service. But then he got on a plane and handed classified documentation to China and Russia.
So he started as a "hero" who exposed the violations of this administration, and days later he actually transformed himself into a traitor and a coward.