Didn't he share it with everyone through the global media (including "terrorists"), not just the American people? For the record, I'm on Snowden's side for the most part, but this isn't a particularly powerful message from Paul.
Well, we are pretty sure that he was debriefed by Chinese Intelligence (and Russian Intelligence) and its fairly reasonable to believe, given that China has had access to him that they have the entire contents of the information he took with him. He also discussed supposed evidence of classified intelligence operations with the Hong Kong news paper for which he gave a number of exclusive interviews (including the one in which he explained that he joined Booz Allen with the intention of obtaining classified information)
If I revealed classified information to the British, it'd still be espionage. Last I checked, the United Kingdom's a pretty tight ally of the United States.
i didnt know he was charged with espionage. i thought he was charged with braking verise rules regarding leaking classifed matiral, witch carry a hefty sentence but isnt espionage per say.
The real reason Snowden is a hero doesn't fit very well in a soundbite.
The main reason we didn't nuke the planet during the Cold War is because we had spies on both sides keeping the playing field level. The US has been getting way out ahead lately, and the world needs guys like Snowden to balance things out. The alternative is WWIII, USA vs. everybody.
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Date: 2013-06-27 04:51 am (UTC)You know...if the government doesn't see me as the enemy , I sure wish it would stop acting like I am.
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Date: 2013-06-27 02:51 pm (UTC)There's a lot of similarities, now that I think about it...
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Date: 2013-06-27 05:19 pm (UTC)The main reason we didn't nuke the planet during the Cold War is because we had spies on both sides keeping the playing field level. The US has been getting way out ahead lately, and the world needs guys like Snowden to balance things out. The alternative is WWIII, USA vs. everybody.