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re: Snowden to release memoir saying the US intelligence community 'hacked the Constitution'
Posted on 9/15/19 at 10:14 am to SDVTiger
Posted on 9/15/19 at 10:14 am to SDVTiger
How is the weather where you are at?
a magic eight ball up in dis thread huh bishes?
a magic eight ball up in dis thread huh bishes?
This post was edited on 9/15/19 at 10:15 am
Posted on 9/15/19 at 10:29 am to cajunangelle
Cool. So, you're a liar.
Like I said.
Like I said.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 10:32 am to cajunangelle
Yeah, none of that happened.
Rob had his arse handed to him trying to defend that traitor. Multiple times.
Snowden's actions are not defensible.
Rob had his arse handed to him trying to defend that traitor. Multiple times.
Snowden's actions are not defensible.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 10:37 am to DisplacedBuckeye
Compliments of ShortyRob years ago and here and now.
I just pinned a poli board medal on ShortyRob it was that good.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 10:39 am to cajunangelle
Well, that didn't happen.
My challenge for anyone to defend his actions had one of two outcomes. Either they fell on their faces because he's a fricking traitor, or they were honest enough to admit he is a traitor. NC_Tigah was one of the few who fell in with the latter.
My challenge for anyone to defend his actions had one of two outcomes. Either they fell on their faces because he's a fricking traitor, or they were honest enough to admit he is a traitor. NC_Tigah was one of the few who fell in with the latter.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 11:09 am to cajunangelle
Personally I think the attacks on snowden's character are informative.
It highlights how badly certain people want to avoid discussing the actual information.
This is pretty much a universal tactic in all situations where information provided is uncomfortable to people.
in this case it's clearly uncomfortable for a couple of reasons. Reason one is that no reasonable person thinks that if the information is true that it's okay what is being done.
Reason two is that some people are perfectly fine with KGB tactics in the United States and rather than say so they attack Snowden instead.
I'm not one to worry that much about where information comes from as much as whether or not the information is true. If a horrible person provides me true information that my neighbor is trying to murder my wife I don't really give a f*** then I got the info from a horrible person
It highlights how badly certain people want to avoid discussing the actual information.
This is pretty much a universal tactic in all situations where information provided is uncomfortable to people.
in this case it's clearly uncomfortable for a couple of reasons. Reason one is that no reasonable person thinks that if the information is true that it's okay what is being done.
Reason two is that some people are perfectly fine with KGB tactics in the United States and rather than say so they attack Snowden instead.
I'm not one to worry that much about where information comes from as much as whether or not the information is true. If a horrible person provides me true information that my neighbor is trying to murder my wife I don't really give a f*** then I got the info from a horrible person
Posted on 9/15/19 at 11:18 am to ShortyRob
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Personally I think the attacks on snowden's character are informative.
It highlights how badly certain people want to avoid discussing the actual information.
I've asked the board to defend his actions numerous times. Ignore that he's a liar and a scumbag. Just defend his actions.
Go ahead.
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If a horrible person provides me true information that my neighbor is trying to murder my wife I don't really give a f*** then I got the info from a horrible person
You wouldn't call that person a hero, either.
Again. Nice try.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 11:21 am to DisplacedBuckeye
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I've asked the board to defend his actions numerous times. Ignore that he's a liar and a scumbag. Just defend his actions
I'm interested in the information
quote:well. Yeah. If it saved my wife's life, he's a hero in that moment.
You wouldn't call that person a hero, either
It's perfectly fine that I would WANT him to tell me.
This post was edited on 9/15/19 at 11:22 am
Posted on 9/15/19 at 11:27 am to ShortyRob
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I'm interested in the information
But not all of it.
Just what you like.
Typical.
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in that moment.
In the moment...
And what about when he stabs your other neighbors and runs to Russia? Still a hero, damn it.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 11:32 am to ShortyRob
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Why Edward Snowden Is a Hero
SNIP SNIP
In revealing the colossal scale of the U.S. government’s eavesdropping on Americans and other people around the world, he has performed a great public service that more than outweighs any breach of trust he may have committed. Like Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department official who released the Pentagon Papers, and Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear technician who revealed the existence of Israel’s weapons program, before him, Snowden has brought to light important information that deserved to be in the public domain, while doing no lasting harm to the national security of his country.
Doubtless, many people inside the U.S. power structure—President Obama included—and some of its apologists in the media will see things differently. When Snowden told the Guardian that “nothing good” was going to happen to him, he was almost certainly right. In fleeing to Hong Kong, he may have overlooked the existence of its extradition pact with the United States, which the U.S. authorities will most certainly seek to invoke. The National Security Agency has already referred the case to the Justice Department, and James Clapper, Obama’s director of National Intelligence, has said that Snowden’s leaks have done “huge, grave damage” to “our intelligence capabilities.”
Before accepting such claims at face value, let’s remind ourselves of what the leaks so far have not contained. They didn’t reveal anything about the algorithms that the N.S.A. uses, the groups or individuals that the agency targets, or the identities of U.S. agents. They didn’t contain the contents of any U.S. military plans, or of any conversations between U.S. or foreign officials. As Glenn Greenwald, one of the journalists who broke the story, pointed out on “Morning Joe” today, this wasn’t a WikiLeaks-style data dump. “[Snowden] spent months meticulously studying every document,” Greenwald said. “He didn’t just upload them to the Internet.”
So, what did the leaks tell us? First, they confirmed that the U.S. government, without obtaining any court warrants, routinely collects the phone logs of tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, of Americans, who have no links to terrorism whatsoever. If the publicity prompts Congress to prevent phone companies such as Verizon and A.T. & T. from acting as information-gathering subsidiaries of the spying agencies, it won’t hamper legitimate domestic-surveillance operations—the N.S.A. can always go to court to obtain a wiretap or search warrant—and it will be a very good thing for the country.
The second revelation in the leaks was that the N.S.A., in targeting foreign suspects, has the capacity to access vast amounts of user data from U.S.-based Internet companies such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Skype. Exactly how this is done remains a bit murky. But it’s clear that, in the process of monitoring the communications of overseas militants and officials and the people who communicate with them, the N.S.A. sweeps up a great deal of online data about Americans, and keeps it locked away—seemingly forever.
Conceivably, the fact that Uncle Sam is watching their Facebook and Google accounts could come as news to some dimwit would-be jihadis in foreign locales, prompting them to communicate in ways that are harder for the N.S.A. to track. But it will hardly surprise the organized terrorist groups, which already go to great lengths to avoid being monitored. Not for nothing did Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad go without a phone or Internet connection.
Another Snowden leak, which Greenwald and the Guardian published over the weekend, was a set of documents concerning another secret N.S.A. tracking program with an Orwellian name: “Boundless Informant.” Apparently designed to keep Snowden’s former bosses abreast of what sorts of data it was collecting around the world, the program unveiled the vast reach of the N.S.A.’s activities. In March, 2013, alone, the Guardian reported, the N.S.A. collected ninety-seven billion pieces of information from computer networks worldwide, and three billion of those pieces came from U.S.-based networks.
It’s hardly surprising that the main targets for the N.S.A.’s data collection were Iran (fourteen billion pieces in that period) and Pakistan (more than thirteen billion), but countries such as Jordan, India, and Egypt, American allies all, may be a bit surprised to find themselves so high on the list. “We hack everyone everywhere,” Snowden told the Guardian. “We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.”
For most Americans, the main concern will be domestic spying, and the chronic lack of oversight that Snowden’s leaks have highlighted. In the years since 9/11, the spying agencies have been given great leeway to expand their activities, with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court, which deals with legal requests from the agencies, and the congressional intelligence committees, which nominally oversees all of their activities, all too often acting as rubber stamps rather than proper watchdogs.
Partly, that was due to lack of gumption and an eagerness to look tough on issues of counterterrorism. But it also reflected a lack of information. Just a couple of months ago, at a Senate hearing, Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden, one of the few legislators to sound any misgivings over the activities of the intelligence agencies, asked Clapper, “Does the N.S.A. collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” To which Clapper replied: “No, sir.” (He added, “Not wittingly.”) At another hearing, General Keith Alexander, the director of the N.S.A., denied fourteen times that the agency had the technical capability to intercept e-mails and other online communications in the United States.
Thanks to Snowden, and what he told the Guardian and the Washington Post, we now have cause to doubt the truth of this testimony. In Snowden’s words: “The N.S.A. has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife’s phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.”
Were Clapper and Alexander deliberately lying? If so, perhaps Snowden should be extradited to the United States and dragged into court—but only as part of a proceeding in which the two spymasters face charges of misleading Congress. I suppose you could make the argument that he is a naïve young man who didn’t fully understand the dangerous nature of the world in which we live. You could question his motives, and call him a publicity seeker, or an idiot. (Fleeing to Hong Kong wasn’t very smart.) But he doesn’t sound like an airhead; he sounds like that most awkward and infuriating of creatures—a man of conscience. “I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things,” he told Greenwald. “I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.”
So what is Snowden’s real crime? Like Ellsberg, Vanunu, and Bradley Manning before him, he uncovered questionable activities that those in power would rather have kept secret. That’s the valuable role that whistle-blowers play in a free society,
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Posted on 9/15/19 at 11:37 am to cajunangelle
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“[Snowden] spent months meticulously studying every document,” Greenwald said. “He didn’t just upload them to the Internet.”
Nah. He just delivered them to China and Russia instead.
What a fricking joke.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 12:00 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
Like China and Russia gained favor in knowing about our country having U.S.S.R. tactics of spying. It gives them a reason to cheer with demoralization and divide of the USA.
And I posted that to ShortyRob I don't recall asking what you thought. But since we are here...
Before you have a lick of reasoning of your opinion on Snowden... you would have to acknowledge 1- Bush started what Snowden exposed. 2-Obama fully utilized and abused the spying in his own country not for the purpose of 911 type terrorists. But for spying on everyone; with his administration, to gain political favors and backing. And trying sedition to unseat President Trump.
And I posted that to ShortyRob I don't recall asking what you thought. But since we are here...
Before you have a lick of reasoning of your opinion on Snowden... you would have to acknowledge 1- Bush started what Snowden exposed. 2-Obama fully utilized and abused the spying in his own country not for the purpose of 911 type terrorists. But for spying on everyone; with his administration, to gain political favors and backing. And trying sedition to unseat President Trump.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 12:03 pm to cajunangelle
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And I posted that to ShortyRob I don't recall asking what you thought.
I don't give a frick.
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Before you have a lick of reasoning of your opinion on Snowden...
Nope. You still need to admit Snowden is a traitor. Until you are honest enough to do that, I'm not discussing a damn thing with you.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 12:07 pm to cajunangelle
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How is the weather where you are at?
Hot as frick. Global warming is a bitche
Posted on 9/15/19 at 12:18 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
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Nope. You still need to admit Snowden is a traitor. Until you are honest enough to do that, I'm not discussing a damn thing with you.
You’re my entertainment DB.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 12:20 pm to Bass Tiger
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You’re my entertainment DB.
This entire board is entertainment if you know what you're doing.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 12:39 pm to Bass Tiger
There are a couple of posters that I’ve noticed are a stone cold guarantee that the thread will be a shite-show. Doesn’t matter what the topic is.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 12:40 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
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But not all of it.
Just what you like.
Typical
I'm interested in all of it. You're just making stuff up now.
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And what about when he stabs your other neighbors and runs to Russia? Still a hero, damn it
I want the information that saves me wife. This isn't complicated.
As for Russia. Meh. It's pretty apparent that many people in our intelligence apparatus look at how the Russians do things as a feature, not a bug.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 12:41 pm to cajunangelle
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I hope you aren't basing this opinion on Displaced Buckeyes opinion
I don't recall seeing Displaced weigh in on the issue, but even if so, his CFB allegiance is enough to call his judgment into question.
No, I'm going on what NSA folks have said about him.
Posted on 9/15/19 at 12:50 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
You will never admit any Democrat or Obama wrongdoing. Yet you are a moderate
This post was edited on 9/15/19 at 12:52 pm
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