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-71 points

Snowden could have

  • been an official whistleblower and avoided prosecution

  • leaked only to US papers and avoided prosecution

  • leaked only non-classified information and avoided prosecution

Snowden sold classified info to enemies of the US. He made his bed.

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  • penguins fly faster than eagles
  • mankind can survive in the vacuum of outer space
  • burritos were invented in a cave in Yugoslavia
  • just saying things doesn’t make them true
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Yeah like saying Snowden isn’t a traitor.

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So how do you propose an ethical person expose corruption to the people of this country when the people in power that he would normally report it to are part of the corruption? The constitutional violations were approved, in secret, all the way up to the President of the United States of America. Or are you of the belief that anything is patriotic & acceptable if you’re in charge and you give it a catchy name like The Patriot Act?

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He didn’t sell anything. After trying to raise internal concerns about his work, he leaked classified information to The Washington Post and The Guardian.

Then the DoJ cancelled his passport due to “espionage” and he got stuck in Russia, where he still lives today.

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You are so full of shit, it isn’t even funny:

Snowden could have been an official whistleblower and avoided prosecution

He literally tried to do that and was ignored.

leaked only to US papers and avoided prosecution

You mean like the American Branch of the Guardian and the Washington Post? Aka the Newspaper that he leaked to?

leaked only non-classified information and avoided prosecution

Leaking unclassified information about a classified program. How do you imagine that?

Snowden sold classified info to enemies of the US. He made his bed.

No, he literally did not.

How about you stop getting your info from Fox News?

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Lmao I don’t watch Fox News. I just understand reality.

If Grusch can leak unclassified info about classified programs, so could Snowden

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I just understand reality.

This statement is actually more braindead than the takes on Fox.

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