Very cold winters are too hard for Edward it seems.

[ricketyclik]

Snowden's not a spy, he's a whistle blower. He deserves your thanks, not your contempt.

[Sava]

i can find a reason why everyone deserves my contempt

[C0ckney]

snowden is a hero.

[giblets]

It makes me so mad when people embarrass the government, I hope he suffers /s

[ricketyclik]

Snowden wants to return to the US. What a spineless spy he has turned out to be. Says he's willing to go to jail - but refuses to say how long.

I think he's looking at 30 years. My advice for him is to spend the Russian summers chopping wood - lots of firewood.

Discloses the governments' (plural) illegal invasion of our privacy (Edit: reminiscent of the KGB) knowing full well he'd probably never be able to enter his homeland again after escaping, for our - not his, our - benefit, and you have the gall to call him spineless?

F*ckin' armchair Monday's expert. Stop your spineless criticism of people who remind you of how spineless you are.

Cue irrelevant navy story proving what a man you are.

[DinoDoc]

Snowden's not a spy, he's a whistle blower. He deserves your thanks, not your contempt.

There's ways he could have disclosed the domestic spying program without selling out legitimate activities to an enemy state for protection.

[ricketyclik]

There's ways he could have disclosed the domestic spying program without selling out legitimate activities to an enemy state for protection.

That's the thing, it wasn't just domestic. We in Australia were targeted, and our government complicit with yours. I'm pretty sure we weren't the only ones. It was an international revelation.

Edit: And if they're legitimate, what's the problem with disclosing them?

By the enemy I assume you mean Russia? Man, the Cold War really is back!

Edityed "Child" to "Cold".

[DinoDoc]

That's the thing, it wasn't just domestic. We in Australia were targeted, and our government complicit with yours. I'm pretty sure we weren't the only ones. It was an international revelation.

Spying on foreigners is a legitimate activity of the US intelligence community.

[rah]

The only revelation to me would be if we weren't doing it. (of it our allies weren't doing it to us also)

[ricketyclik]

So Snowden was telling someone something they didn't already know?

[DinoDoc]

So Snowden was telling someone something they didn't already know?

The question of how we were doing it is what he sold to enemy states.

[rah]

Allies "we are very disturbed that you are spying on us"
US "how did you find out"
Allies "our spies told us"

[Main_Brain]

oO by sold you mean the cost of one of the Newspapers who distributed the Information?

[Bereta_Eder]

Snowden is a true son of liberal mind and protector of civil liberties. A free man in a land of fascists, one might say

He's also the reason the guardian got the pulitzer.

[My Wife Hates CIV]

you complete f* who think snowden is a hero.

go live anywhere else - go now! we'll see how that works out. ask snowden (the slime who wants back now) if you think I don't know sh!t.

he needs a 9mm. chest... than head.