re: Snowden and Putin really throwing it down on us now.

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How do you know this to be true?

With the scaling back/reduced efficiency of the programs he has already revealed, what makes you think we aren't more vulnerable now? Certainly that increased vulnerablity could result in loss of life. Our risk profile is greater the less information our intelligence has

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This is a subjective argument. Sure increased vulnerability COULD result in loss of life. It didn't take a Snowden to create a vulnerability for 9/11 did it? No. OKC Bombing? Nope. Pearl Harbor? Negative. Bad things will always happen. This legislation, as most legislation these days, passed because someone thought they could stop terroristic activities, regardless of group affiliations.

You can't do that. Just like making firearms illegal won't keep firearms out of the hands of criminals. Bad people will always do bad things.

Mr. Snowden, through his SELFLESS actions, is attempting to inject change into a legal system that has taken on a policy in the last decade (or longer) of ignoring its people and doing as it pleases. He had to run for his life, and undoubtedly still fears for it, over trying to do the same things that have been praised as creating the fighting spirit that America was built on.