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Originally Posted by javadog
You worry about some unspecified damage. Might be worse in the future, you say.
Then again, there might be no damage. I don't see what they were doing as having any real downside to the vast majority of us, now or in the future.
I do know that his leaks have made it harder for the US to keep track of what the terrorists are thinking. In turn, since we share information with the rest of the civilized world, the security of those nations is now less than it was. Ask yourself if the terrorists have had any success since Snowden did his thing... Would you be in favor of helping them out even more? Tilting the playing field more in their favor? After all, they play by the rules, don't they? They're a fair bunch, those radical *******s. Anyway, what are a few deaths in France, or England, or some other faraway place going to matter to you?
The second amendment argument, or abortion rights, or any of the other, usual constitutional fights have nothing to do with this.
In nothing else, shoot the little bastard for his theft of classified military documents. That's treasonous, something that goes way back to the dawn of the constitution. I'm sure Putin had no interest in any of those documents, so I suppose we should thank him for keeping them safe from prying eyes for the last couple of years.
JR
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1) damage to one part of the constitution makes it easier to damage the rest. so, yes they are related.
2) death by a thousand cuts.... the more the uh, "terrorists" get us to change our ideals, the more they win the long-term war.
3) oft times folks here relate so-called appeasement of hitler to that of appeasing the terrorists, or at least playing into their hands. similarly, hitler took a bit, and a bit and a bit until Germany was nazified. Just because you havent felt it yet does not mean you won't or your progeny won't. keep turning a blind eye... door number 101.
4) expecting NSA to at least have a plan of attack rather than a blanket spy on everybody policy is not unreasonable. carte blanch surveillence is not the correct answer.
5) how has NSA's widespread spying given us the specific info we need? Tailoring begets less garbage to sift through. Less missing the needle in the haystack.