Snowden, Russia, and USA

Give those sources some food stamp money.

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America needs more Americans like Snowden.

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Not if he went there and gave up strategic information.

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Not if he went there and gave up strategic information

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This administration could have given him immunity and he would not have ended up in Russia. He told the American people things that they needed to know and had to get the hell out of here of fear he would be imprisoned for the rest of his life.

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He was a spy. He did a lot of damage to this country.

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I believe he is a mixed bag. My feeling are all over the map on Snowden but I am glad we know about some of the things the NSA was doing.

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One has to wonder what all Snowden told Russia. Does Russia contain info on our war plans...etc..

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Snowden is no hero. He's a traitor who put our country - actually alot of country's - at risk. His arrival in Russia and subsequent Russian aggression indicates they know the playbook. Putin has been playing coy for a long time and is now seizing the initiative. Anyone who thinks Russia's behavior isn't going to have implications for the US might as well go ride the unicorns in ObamaCare land. They will continue the march into Eastern Europe claiming "protection" of ethnic Russians. Russia's low birthrates will mean very little when they can just seize a country or two and force it's population into military service. It's the same scheme Russia used that led to the Crimean War in the 19th century. Heck,the seige of Sevastol alone claimed 130,000 lives (ever heard of the place?). Only it was the Ottoman Empire - aka the Sick Man of Europe - and Greeks/Orthodox Christians that Russia claimed needed protection.The Russians never wanted to eliminate the Ottoman Empire in one shot. They wanted to extract as much out of it as they could and bleed it to death.
Guess who Putin thinks is the Sick Man now? I wonder where he got that info.....

Snowden is no hero, he's a painfully naive fool.

Mixed feelings about Snowden. We do need more people willing to risk their lives and jobs to do the right thing. Americans needed to know how deeply we were being betrayed by our own government.

However, he's no patriot. Not when he then tells all our secrets to our enemies and put the country at risk.

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Putin wil end up trading Snowden to the U.S. in exchange or the U.S. stepping aside as Putin finishes carving off the Balkins

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Baltics?

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We do need more people willing to risk their lives and jobs to do the right thing. Americans needed to know how deeply we were being betrayed by our own government.

However, he's no patriot. Not when he then tells all our secrets to our enemies and put the country at risk.

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True...

He said on his video chat with SXSW that he wanted to go straight to Congress and the public with the information, but he knew that he would be black bagged.

I don't think he is a hero and hold him in some high regard, but I also don't condemn him. Im neutral. I think what he exposed needed to be exposed and I have seen no evidence that he has done anything to directly put American lives at risk.

If Snowden only let the American people know about the NSA domestic spying, then he did the right thing.

But if he's giving information to an enemy, then frick that traitor.