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In reply to the discussion: Transcript of the Edward Snowden portion of my show this week [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Snowden made his disclosures in part because the Supreme Court has been derived by our secrecy laws from making an informed decision about the extent of and procedures used by the NSA surveillance.
In your OP you belittle Snowden for judging the constitutionality of the procedures and conduct he observed and participated in while working as a contractor for the NSA although he is not a lawyer.
Are you a lawyer?
Among other things, lawyers challenge the law. They keep testing and testing the limits of the law, the specific facts to which certain laws apply.
That is as much a part of our legal process as are the decisions themselves.
I believe that the decisions of the Court on surveillance, the narrowing of the application of the Fourth Amendment are wrong. They are not what our Founding Fathers expected, wanted or hoped for.
So, time will tell. The current NSA surveillance is a terrible threat to our form of self-government and all of our rights.
Many people do not understand that. The German people do because they saw what massive surveillance did to their country.
Don't dismiss Snowden so summarily. He has done a great service. Wait and see.
Meanwhile, I am seriously asking you whether you have a law degree.