It’s interesting how much of the professional left pretends to be, or really is, surprised at the
widespread condemnation of Snowden and his accomplices.
At the Daily Beast, a story is headlined,
It's appalling to hear
the Washington bureaucrats and their media allies trash Edward Snowden as a
traitor, when it's our leaders and the NSA who have betrayed us, writes Kirsten
Powers.
They are far from appalled that a very junior employee in
the national security biz chose to knowingly violate his oath and the law and
spill these beans in service to his political agenda.
The lefty claim that our leaders have betrayed us is a moral/political judgement in which they are pretty much alone.
The claim that Snowden betrayed us is a legal fact.
Reportedly, he is a high school dropout with a GED who joined Booz Allen, the firm from which he stole secrets, specifically in order to do that.
I appreciate many of your other posts, but you must realize Snowden has done the people of the world an incredible service.
ReplyDeleteI don't care about the legality of his actions. He had a moral responsibility to speak up, just as Bradley Manning, William Binney, Daniel Ellsberg, and every should-be-whistleblower in a position to recognize extreme systemic abuses also has/had.
Regarding Edward Snowden, you seem to have little grasp on how far your views are from the views of ordinary Americans and how alien they seem to them.