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kpete

(72,024 posts) Mon Jun 17, 2013, 09:06 PM Jun 2013

Snowden: If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower?commentpage=1

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Snowden: If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Cheney worries about, I would h (Original Post) kpete Jun 2013 OP

Is he focused on Cheney? MADem Jun 2013 #1

This is the 1st tme I've seen the whole interview. pscot Jun 2013 #2

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1. Is he focused on Cheney?

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 09:13 PM

Jun 2013

Wasn't one of his "possessions" that he took to Hong Kong a copy of a biography of Cheney?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angler:_The_Cheney_Vice_Presidency

I thought his father said he didn't finish high school because he had mono...?

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2. This is the 1st tme I've seen the whole interview.

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 09:26 PM

Jun 2013

It's absolutely riveting. Highly recommended.

.......................NSA provides Congress with a special immunity to its surveillance.