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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Ed Snowden wants to avoid prosecution
why doesn't he join a Wall Street banking firm? I'd suggest Goldman Sachs.
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If Ed Snowden wants to avoid prosecution (Original Post)
rurallib
Jun 2013
OP
Now if those boys got all in a huff about the NSA tracking their transactions you can bet...........
wandy
Jun 2013
#2
Maybe that's why he went to China. Seem to be no repercussions when they spy on us.
BlueStreak
Jun 2013
#4
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)1. It'd be a first. K and R
wandy
(3,539 posts)2. Now if those boys got all in a huff about the NSA tracking their transactions you can bet...........
this metadata stuff would come to an abrupt end right quick.
Come to think of it, why doesn't it bother them?
Hydra
(14,459 posts)8. Cuz they own the system
They're immune to prosecution for anything, and they're profiting off the apparatus.
Remember when President Obama said there was only 1 America? There are 2...
morningfog
(18,115 posts)3. He just wasn't high enough in Booz Allen. Apparently they can sell
it all to foreign government's with no repercussions. Hell, it seems they do it with expressed condonement.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)4. Maybe that's why he went to China. Seem to be no repercussions when they spy on us.
michigandem58
(1,044 posts)5. Or don't break the law?
Just a thought
Hydra
(14,459 posts)9. Just let the NSA keep breaking the law? Good plan there...
I think similar arguments were put forward as to why we couldn't impeach the Bush Admin?
msongs
(67,406 posts)6. if he was at Goldman he could get a job in obama's cabinet :-) nt
JoeyT
(6,785 posts)7. Or commit war crimes.
We don't prosecute that either.
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)10. He could also retroactively join the Bush Administration.
Obama NEVER goes after them.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)12. An even better suggestion! n/t
Catherina
(35,568 posts)11. Priceless! Thank you n/t