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Richard Clarke: Snowden Should Be in Prison

Former White House cybersecurity advisor Richard Clarke says that although the NSA's domestic intelligence data collection has been too broad, there is no evidence that NSA has yet used this data for ill and that Edward Snowden has jeopardized the United States' national security.

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RonnyB950
RonnyB950,
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3/29/2014 | 10:21:03 AM
Many interpretations
Some say he should have followed the procedures set out for "whistleblowers", but, I think it's fair to say those avenues are not really adequate or safe. So, under such circumstances, where one feels the need to correct or expose a perceived wrong doing, but feels the system will react like some kind of venus fly trap, what should you do, take the risk and maybe become a disappeared person ( Etc.) Do nothing and pretend nothing is wrong, or do what Snowden did ( obviously C.Mannings way was a disaster for him).

Sure, the law is the law, but we all know that there are good reasons to break laws, and sometimes breaking the law is the most ethical and moral thing to do, and in fact needs to be done. Governments make laws, some are good and right, but not all, and some are made to protect governments from being found out, these laws are abuses of power.

Snowden revealed what needed to be revealed, without him the government would have gotten more and more out of control. All the things we fought and died for for the last couple of hundred years would have gone out the window, what is the use of having words such as freedom, privacy, pursuit of happiness Etc Etc. if they are just words, just a belief but not a reality, no amount of security is worth such a loss.


Sure, we probably lost some advantages in "intelligence" but that loss just may prevent the loss of things that are much harder to get back, and if we lose those things, then our enemies have won, those enemies cannot defeat us with a thousand 9/11s, but if we lose our liberty, our right to privacy, our way of life, then we lose everything.


 
anon8401789708
anon8401789708,
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3/28/2014 | 4:53:44 PM
...agree
People are not allowed the liberty of interpreting laws...and choose which ones they  will follow.

Just because "you" disagree with a law....you still know "it's against the law"

If you break a law...you should be arrested, period.

He could have gone to superiors....he could of followed protocal for reporting.

He CHOOSE to break the law.....he should get all the consequence for making that decision...for he made it himself.

 

 

 
Marilyn Cohodas
Marilyn Cohodas,
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3/28/2014 | 1:09:21 PM
Snowden: Hero or Traitor?
There are no shortage of opinions in the security community and among he public about whether Edward Snowden is a whistleblower and hero, or crimiinal and spy. My own view? I'm not sure. I think the country is better off knowing what Snowden revealed. But he knowingly broke the law and there is more than a little amount of irony in his taking asylum in a totatarian state like Russia.

What's your take? Lets have an informed discussion in the comments. 
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