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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25399345
Would you support this, or be against it? I am against it myself.
A top NSA official says it is considering offering an amnesty to fugitive intelligence analyst Edward Snowden if he agrees to stop leaking documents.
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I would give him Amnesty in the form of a slug behind the right ear...that generally stops the leak.
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I'm mixed!
On one hand, as a government agent, you are sworn to protect information you are privy to. His actions have now caused some distrust by our allies. We are responsible and accountable for our actions!
On the other hand, I'm very leery of our current administration. Their stories about Bengazi, Fast and Furious, and others are being exposed and leave a lot of unanswered questions. So did this Snowden Guy expose more corruption? Did he do us a favor?
He should at least come back and stand before a tribunal to hear his case. That would be the honorable thing to do.
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There are other people out there who would love a GOV job and this guy gets one and then does this ? It isn't rite.
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CPT Ray Doeksen
You aren't wrong, but your use of the word "tribunal" is interesting; it just means a court that has the authority, but in the US we're not used to hearing it refer to civilian courts, so it seems you're saying he should stand before some military court, but he's been accused of three felonies: conveying classified information to an unauthorized party, disclosing communications intelligence information, and theft of government property. He'd be tried in a regular Federal court like any other civilian. He was a contractor, not subject to UCMJ.
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CW2 Geoff Lachance
I stand corrected CPT. I assumed he was a government employee! Thanks
FYI, I was referring to any court of law that has the jurisdiction to hear his case.
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SFC Rocky Gannon, Absoulutely not. This guy reminds me too much of the Falcon.
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Yes, I would support amnesty for Snowden. He was a whistleblower. While his means for blowing the whistle were unconventional, the system for reporting the abuses was broken. Had he gone through the proper channels to blow the whistle, he would have been fired, and the information would have been covered up. NOTHING would have changed except his employment status. The American people's constitutional rights were being violated by the very government they elected, and we have a right to know. We don't need Big Brother watching our every move...
I don't agree with all of his information releases. For example, leaking the fact that we had bugged Merkel's phone wasn't good for our PR and it makes our allies trust us less... but then again that was a very underhanded thing to do to one of your trusted allies. That juicy tidbit was very damaging to our foreign relations and set us back considerably.
He did some things right (given the options he had) and he did some things wrong. I don't fully support all that he did, but yes, the information about our gov't spying on our own citizens without warrant did need to come out. The information about the Big Brother datacenter being built out West (with Zetabytes of storage capacity -- enough to maintain an active dossier on everyone on this planet) needed to come out. Our gov't doesn't need that kind of information to function. It's overstepping its constitutional authority in a most scary way.
Snowden honored the principles of our Constitution and held them higher than his own personal safety and future. You can call him a pinhead, but I see him as a patriot [of sorts]. He knew his life would be in danger and that his life would never be the same, but I think he was thinking about us, and our rights being violated. I sincerely believe that Snowden loves this country. I think in his mind he did what he had to do to expose the government's intentional violation of our constitutional rights. Part of me is glad he did it. I think the real villain in this story is the system that was so corrupted that it would not entertain the concerns of a whistleblower. It took what Edward Snowden did to wake people up to the abuses of our Federal Gov't.
I don't agree with all of his information releases. For example, leaking the fact that we had bugged Merkel's phone wasn't good for our PR and it makes our allies trust us less... but then again that was a very underhanded thing to do to one of your trusted allies. That juicy tidbit was very damaging to our foreign relations and set us back considerably.
He did some things right (given the options he had) and he did some things wrong. I don't fully support all that he did, but yes, the information about our gov't spying on our own citizens without warrant did need to come out. The information about the Big Brother datacenter being built out West (with Zetabytes of storage capacity -- enough to maintain an active dossier on everyone on this planet) needed to come out. Our gov't doesn't need that kind of information to function. It's overstepping its constitutional authority in a most scary way.
Snowden honored the principles of our Constitution and held them higher than his own personal safety and future. You can call him a pinhead, but I see him as a patriot [of sorts]. He knew his life would be in danger and that his life would never be the same, but I think he was thinking about us, and our rights being violated. I sincerely believe that Snowden loves this country. I think in his mind he did what he had to do to expose the government's intentional violation of our constitutional rights. Part of me is glad he did it. I think the real villain in this story is the system that was so corrupted that it would not entertain the concerns of a whistleblower. It took what Edward Snowden did to wake people up to the abuses of our Federal Gov't.
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I don't think he should get amnesty. Who knows what he may have turned over to the Russians.
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Everyone knows, or should know that ALL countries spy, not only on their enemies, but friends. Spying has gone on since BEFORE medieval times!
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If I were Snowden... I wouldn't trust any kind of amnesty deal. I think once he gives up his cards, he's going to have an unfortunate accident. Or put into permanent "witness relocation" - never to be heard from again.
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I do not think he should be given amnesty, I would prefer a quicker end in order to save the Government any expense of a trial or long prison sentence.
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Gen Anderson says no but he will be gone in a few months, so what will the next person do?
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