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Last edited Mon Jun 2, 2014, 01:05 AM - Edit history (1)
NBC has a great timeline on Snowden and his activities.
Not even six months after he contributed to Ron Paul's campaign ($250 in March and June of 2012), he reached out to conservative writer Glen Greenwald in December of 2012. He also contacted documentarist, Laura Poitras, one month after that in January 2013.
Snowden was planning to leak documents a good 5 months before he said he reached out through the NSA General Counsel in April of 2013, and as the email was revealed, it had nothing to do with potential abuse of power by the NSA.
The fact is, Snowden planned the leak with Greenwald and Poitras and never intended to follow proper channels to report any perceived abuse.
Full timeline of Snowden's activities here: http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/edward-snowden-interview/edward-snowden-timeline-n114871
treestar
(82,383 posts)To blow the whistle on?
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Tarheel_Dem
(31,232 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Cha
(297,123 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Cha
(297,123 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)I form my opinions based upon the aura achieved by applying a special algorithm to the pixels in the bottom left corner of my display.
Granted, sometimes I research shit, but... the aura.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
but it's All Out of Context, man!
Cha
(297,123 posts)MattSh
(3,714 posts)You'd think they could detect something like that. If they can't, they deserve to get leaked.
Cha
(297,123 posts)quakerboy
(13,918 posts)He is apparently fairly amateur. He didn't have much of a useful plan, when it comes down to it. Imagine what someone determined to gain personal benefit through darker means could have done given the access he was given. If an amateur like Snowden slipped through , who else has made their way inside?
Cha
(297,123 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Cha
(297,123 posts)his sniveling ass.. after the fact.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Oh, good grief.
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)Let's not forget he wrote a book dispelling myths about Republicans.
If you can't see him for what he is, that's your problem.
Hekate
(90,633 posts)Just watching as the bits and pieces continue to come out...
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)That definitely demonstrates both Greenwald and Poitras are accomplices in the crime!
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Cha
(297,123 posts)fit their agenda.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)He's fucking Edward Snowden the invisible superhero.
Cha
(297,123 posts)bad whiny. Stay in Russia.. it's too scary when Putin's not protecting your lying ass.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)got your sarcasm.. I was just adding my 2cent$.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)little bit.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)(I mean George W. Bush) in his post. I knew this place had "gone to the zoo", but that is ridiculous.
DrBulldog
(841 posts)... read Greenwald's book - it's fully documented.
Cha
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Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)It addresses a potential constitutional crisis.
Does an Executive Order take precedence over the Constitution/law?
That is a question of abuse of power by NSA.
Got it now?
NanceGreggs
(27,813 posts)The email addresses a potential Constitutional crisis - funny that Snowden himself doesn't see it that way, and never raised the topic.
Maybe you should contact Eddie and remind him that his fans KNOW what that email meant, even if he doesn't. It's a sad day when the narrator of his own story has to be reminded that he's getting in the way of his fan base's preferred narrative.
bobduca
(1,763 posts)Cha
(297,123 posts)Last edited Mon Jun 2, 2014, 04:46 AM - Edit history (1)
though he fucking thinks it.
Edit: clarify
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)This stopped being about Snowden about the time of a dancer and boxes in the garage. We have had this conversation before, so I expect the same exact effect...so taking out the prop...err trash.
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)Keep bringing it up?
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)NSA over reach, we might have something to talk about.
As I said, taking out the propaganda.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)I'm just wondering for which country though.
Silent3
(15,190 posts)I really don't give a damn who is or is not a hero or a criminal, who is being brave or who is being an asshole.
I think some of what has been revealed has been exaggerated (for example, a lot of the documents talked about what the NSA aspired to do, not what they were actually doing yet, some of which might be very technically difficult to ever implement), but the stuff that we can know for sure the NSA has been doing is more than damning enough.
It would be one thing if matters of personal character cast doubt on the information that has been revealed, but you don't hear the government denying very much -- trying to downplay it for sure, providing not-so-reassuring assurances that the NSA isn't abusing what it's been monitoring and collecting -- but rather anger that a true or mostly-true story has been revealed, one they'd have rather kept secret.
GeorgeGist
(25,318 posts)I think he knows what the term e-mailS means.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Sometimes it seems like the only purpose in life is to keep your car from touching another's.[/center][/font][hr]