Michael Hastings was on to it.

Undoubtedly Petraeus set it up.

That remote controlled car powered by alien technology from the planet Bugfukerie is what did him in.
Cars just don't crash.
Never happened before and will probably never happen again...

For some, heat is much more preferable to light..
Thanks for posting...

Agreed, here we have a patsy trying to stir up the uninformed, they don't check for the truth, that would be too simple. It would also destroy Snowden. Its like,a ne'er do well trying to make something important. It sounds like a Paulbot who doesn't like our government and wants it shut down.

Then the next time a Republican becomes POTUS all those safeguards will be gone.

So unless the next President has the backing of the whole Congress, then it would not work.

It's not like they are kept all that far in the loop on this stuff.

that sit on the intelligent committees. They fund the N.S.A.

Congessmen and Senators spend more time fundraising than anything else, they don't have the time to look into NSA abuses because they're too damn busy calling the 1% begging for money for which everyone knows there will be a quid pro quo.

foreign born citizen that obtained US citizenship to gain clearance and access to secrets...puts a different spin on it.

good point

I worry more that it may be used against us in the next election.

However anyone paying attention already knew all of this and many of us have been complaining about it since its inception. Yes, we even knew about the "safeguards" that were put in place, although they ere not enough and the programs are still expanding. The patriot Act and the entire Homeland Security (Good gawd, wasn't "homeland" a dead giveaway?) fiasco was a slippery slope that will be nearly impossible to rein in.

Yes, I am glad Obama is in charge and I don't really feel he would use the information to hurt me but he won't always be in charge and a future administration might well abuse the information.

What is funny though, is that, aside from DU, I don't see much about this at all. People seem to have already moved on to other issues once again. On DU, the issue wouldn't be so prevalent either if the side bent on protecting this administration from the really indefensible wasn't keeping it on the front burner by posting so many threads calling out those intent on keeping our rights. Funny how their intentions to help the administration may just be doing it more damage.

Second, I didn't write this to protect the administration. My OP was in no way politically motivated. I was merely point out what some on here either didn't read or refuse to point out. We are so ready to easily believe that our government is so bad. I wrote this because everyone is trying to seek the truth. I don't think anyone knew that there were safeguards in place. I based that on the perception I got from what I read on how Snowden is a hero and seeing Greenwald face on every news channel calling him everything from a patriot to the second coming of Christ. All I am doing is asking what is his real intentions?

Why can't it be what it appears to be, a kid with a conscience blowing the whistle on wrong doing by our government?

DU has always been a place that overwhelmingly supports whistle blowers, so you shouldn't be surprised that that is still the case.

No one cannot answer that. What was the crime? Do you know? Do you have a link that points to the crime that the N.S.A has broken? You may be ok with taking someone's word that you don't know that says the government is breaking the constitution without providing ANY proof of that but I'm not ok with that. Whistleblowers points out the where the law was broken. He did not fulfill that requirement. Now prove me wrong.

Not to mention this guy:

Jimmy Carter to @CNN on Snowden's disclosures: "The bringing of it to the public notice has probably been, in the long term, beneficial"

You said it. Not me.

They would rather run around with their hair on fire screaming the sky is falling. All over a secret court that has been operating in secrecy since 1978.

Which, while hard to believe, appears to be the case.