Hi Al!
Well, that's fine and dandy so long as none of our own military secrets weren't passed along to the Russians who are acting more and more like the former Soviet Union...
A whistle blower is one thing but, once a person who has certain security clearances and signed legal and binding documents which stipulated that any passing of classified information to any of our adversaries including both Russia and China constitutes high treason and who knows what exactly this Snowden P.O.S. passed along to them so that they could assure him asylum and I'm not talking about just what was reported in the media because the media is his main vehicle in passing himself as a whistleblower when in reality, he performed many treasonous acts against not only our government which I have already known for many years already doesn't play fair towards it's own citizens but, also our country and that last part is the reason the man must hang! Or at least never be able to enjoy whatever was left of is own freedom...
Al, I have known for quite some time now, that our freedoms we once took for granted have eroded to an unacceptable level and yet, we still have more freedom than many of the other countries who spend a lot of time nowadays being critical towards the US even though their own citizens enjoy nowhere near the level of freedom we still share here!!!
But that's not the issue I have with "BLANK..." The problem I have with this fool is that he exposed our primary security tools & systems to the enemy/adversaries so that they could better guard themselves from, and now we must spend oodles and oodles of more money that we really don't have to come up with something to replace them with, and in the mean time exposes ourselves by making us more vulnerable to enhanced cyber attacks that have been formulated by our adversaries by learning from what was exposed to them by this P.O.S.!!!
Yeah I know we don't have any privacy left anymore but that's been going on even before 9-11 and yet now people are getting pissed off about it??? Where were they when the Patriot act was being debated in Congress??? We were too busy to focus on that back then because nobody wanted to question the government since after all, they were protecting us right??? Yeah Right!!!
Look, there are a whole lot of things going on currently as well as in the past that I don't agree with our government but, my beef is the fact that we as a country have become way more vulnerable to cyber warfare because of not only this PUKE!! But also the SOB Assange PUNK that gets his rocks off by embarrassing the US and is also manipulating this PUKE!!! to do even more damage to our own national security in ways that the public will not find out about for quite some time yet, our own intelligence organizations are already scrambling to ward off a multitude of vulnerabilities that weren't present before this RAT PUKE BASTARD decided to ACT as if he was being a whistleblower!!!
My definition of a whistleblower includes someone who is persistent in persuading the Congress and the media of any wrongdoing this government does by appearing in both open as well as closed sessions in both houses of Congress which is something this PUKE knew all too well not even bother with before he and mainly his influential media reporter pushed and exposed us, and was really the one who decided to spill the beans to not only our adversaries but also our own allies who all of a sudden express outrage because of what our government was doing to them... Give me a break!!! They have been doing the same to us for many years now - in fact, for DECADES for crying out loud!!! And they express outrage??? IMHO, they're full of it and they know it!!!
To hell with this government but, do not put my country in a more vulnerable position for our enemies/adversaries to take advantage of by giving away some of our secrets just to prove a point!!! That's what I call a selfish, vindictive,treasonous, SCUMBAG!!! And his buddy, Assange is his puppetmaster just salivating to expose us some more by pretending that he' feeling a sense of solidarity with this Snowden PUNK!!! Shoot!!! They're both PUKE PUNK RATS in my book!!!
He violated one of my most respected principles which is this: One must not put our country in a position of vulnerability because of the actions they took to expose our secrets for our enemies/adversaries to take advantage of, and violating the very oath they took by swearing that they would never do such an act especially if the oath they took is clearly documented. The PUKE violated that principle knowingly, and without any concern about what repercussion would occur afterwards! Guilty as CHARGED!!!
Sorry Al, but I must continue to disagree with you on this and I wish I wasn't but I stand firm behind my principles which I adopted a long time ago as a member of our armed forces and who has been informed by friends still in the service of our country that have first hand knowledge of to what extent we have been exposed because of the actions taken by this P.O.S. PUKE!!! However, we can at least agree that we can disagree and yet at least from this end still be friends with each other and respect each others opinion.
Respectfully,
Henry