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Ex-CIA chief Michael Hayden: What Edward Snowden did

7 pointsby jjguyalmost 12 years ago

2 comments

linuxhanslalmost 12 years ago
Yada, yada, our adversaries, yada, yada, betrayal, yada, yada, can no longer work in secret.<p>Somehow we are to believe that there is a terrorist hiding behind every corner and under every rock, and that only by working in secret our government can keep us safe.<p>A rational person would tackle poverty, health care, debt, aging infrastructure, foreign policy, environment issues, etc, etc.<p>An irrational person on the other hand may be driven by fear and spends insane amounts of money and effort to protect against a perceived threat that is hardly more dangerous than lightening strike.<p>Even in the month of September 2001 more people in the US died in traffic accidents than in the 9&#x2F;11 attacks.
mtgxalmost 12 years ago
I see they keep trying to portray him as a spy, or worse than spy.