HOW EDWARD SNOWDEN SABOTAGED THE WAR ON TERRORISM

[mcar]

Anyone here still think this git is a hero?

http://www.newsweek.com/edward-snowden-undermined-war-terrorism-edward-epstein-539066

...He did vastly more harm by revealing the reach of the PRISM program, which was extraordinarily effective because militant organizations in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan believed the encryption and other safeguards used by internet giants such as Apple, Google, Twitter and WhatsApp protected their communications. They evidently did not know the NSA could intercept data before it was encrypted. Despite metaphors such as the cloud and cyberspace, all data on the internet initially travels through fiber cables, almost all of which run through the United States and the Bahamas. That includes tweets, social media postings, Skype conversations and even Xbox messages.

According to the documents Snowden made public on June 6, 2013, PRISM was, as U.S. intelligence put it, “the number one source of raw intelligence used for NSA analytic reports.” General Michael Hayden, who was the NSA director during the three years following the 9/11 attack, wrote that these surveillance powers, among other things, “uncovered illicit financing networks, detected suspect travel, discovered ties to aviation schools, linked transportation employees to associates of terrorists, drew connections to the illicit purchases of arms, tied U.S. persons to [9/11 mastermind] Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and discovered a suspect terrorist on the no-fly list who was already in the United States.”

Both NSA and FBI officials have testified that PRISM helped thwart at least 45 terrorist attacks between 2007 and 2013, including a plot to put high explosives on the subways under New York City’s Grand Central Station and the Times Square subway station at rush hour.

[guillaumeb]

1. Anyone here think that allowing US intelligence agencies to spy on all of us is a good idea? eom

[Equinox Moon]

11. No. They do not have the right to spy on us.

Snowden is a hero!

[guillaumeb]

20. Agreed. He shed light on an issue, the issue of spying on everyone,

that seems to be a rare point that enjoys bipartisan support.

[Else You Are Mad]

2. I remember when whistle blowers...

Were heroes. Now, they are treated like criminals. See how Manning and Snowden have been treated.

[hack89]

5. They weren't whistle blowers

Real whistle blowers are heros.

[Else You Are Mad]

6. How are they not whistle blowers? nt

[hack89]

7. They made no attempt to obey the whistle blower law

For one thing. In Snowden's case he had contract with foreign intelligence agencies. In Manning's case she indiscriminately gave Assange classified information she never read.

[mcar]

10. Yes

Thanks.

[JCanete]

13. Snowden didn't want to go to jail for the rest of his life, which he almost certainly would have

had he tried to do the right thing right here at home. That hardly makes what he did less important.

And fuck any reading on this that says that its' the whistlebolower's fault that anti-terrorism gets fucked up after they did the dirty shit in the first place that resulted in it happening.

Don't break the fucking laws, government. What is hard to understand about that?

[Mika]

3. When the US supports coups, overthrows, armed rebels, etc, we need these things. Because...

... we're the good guys.

[HoneyBadger]

4. Yep still a hero

Everything that he did was for America

[uponit7771]

8. Fuck Snowden, Snowden lives in Russia after giving intel to Chinese media & our elections get hacked

... Fuck Snowden

[mcar]

9. Yep

[Cha]

17. Exactly.. FO eddie.. too bad you're stuck in russia.

[gulliver]

19. Yup

[Initech]

12. He didn't sabotage it, he made it self aware.

Donald Trump won. The terrorists won. The white supremacists are coming out of the woodwork. What's coming in Whitefish is just the beginning. Things are going to get a lot worse as the next 4 years go on. 9/11 is going to be a blip because Trump is continuing to throw the intelligence community under the bus.

[Cha]

18. Yeah, he did.

[bhikkhu]

14. People who act according to their conscience...

sometimes things go wrong, but I don't judge them.

[Cha]

15. Yeah, snowden didn't give a shite about our Country.. engineered to

Russia by greenwald and assange.

[JCanete]

16. yes! I do still think so. What a surprise that our intelligence agencies would present him

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in a bad light. BTW..that was sarcasm incase it was missed.

[eniwetok]

21. were terrorists that stupid....

Were terrorists that stupid to use methods that weren't end to end encrypted?