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Noah Rothman Charts Snowden’s Fall On BBC: Leaks Were ‘Clarifying’ But He’s Lost ‘Moral Authority’
VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/online/mediates-noah-rothman-charts-snowdens-fall-on-bbc-nsa-leaks-were-clarifying-but-hes-lost-moral-authority/
Mediaite’s own Noah Rothman spoke to BBC Radio Scotland last Saturday to discuss America’s “conflicted” reaction to Edward Snowden and the government surveillance programs he revealed.
“The initial leaks to the Guardian newspaper and to Glenn Greenwald regarding the scale and the scope of the NSA’s monitoring of American communications and their collecting of electronic communication data and warehousing of this data, was unknown to the majority of Americans,” Rothman said. “Those leaks were really informative, and people really appreciated that.”
“At the same time they understand that this was a security issue, and it bordered on espionage. This was…before we started getting leaks about the United Kingdom’s monitoring of foreign intelligence assets, and the United States tapping into communications of then-Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. This is clear espionage. At that point he no longer had moral authority, and it really informed the debate as to whether he should be prosecuted.”
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“The initial leaks to the Guardian newspaper and to Glenn Greenwald regarding the scale and the scope of the NSA’s monitoring of American communications and their collecting of electronic communication data and warehousing of this data, was unknown to the majority of Americans,” Rothman said. “Those leaks were really informative, and people really appreciated that.”
“At the same time they understand that this was a security issue, and it bordered on espionage. This was…before we started getting leaks about the United Kingdom’s monitoring of foreign intelligence assets, and the United States tapping into communications of then-Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. This is clear espionage. At that point he no longer had moral authority, and it really informed the debate as to whether he should be prosecuted.”
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