Re:Snowden Does Not Deserve the Threat He Faces
by rootusrootus on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @05:45PM
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If that was all he had done, it would be easier to support him. Unfortunately he went a little further than that, into territory that arguably is a national security issue.
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Re:Snowden Does Not Deserve the Threat He Faces
by baddox on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @05:49PM
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Arguably, yes. I'd like to hear a real argument, other than "leaking stuff might make us less safe." The leaks are public, so it shouldn't be too hard to find specific instances where people were harmed.
Re:Snowden Does Not Deserve the Threat He Faces
by mc32 on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @11:08PM
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Not necessarily. Human assets can be lost or they can be compromised, methods can be compromised, humint and other intelligence can be set back years so that what goes on in adversarial and even friendly governments is a black box to us (which is not good, given our heft.) so, unless other governments thinking and methods become transparent, this exposure is a real risk.
Re:Snowden Does Not Deserve the Threat He Faces
by CamperBob2 on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @05:52PM
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Unfortunately he went a little further than that, into territory that arguably is a national security issue.
Correct. When the illegal, unaccountable, and extrajudicial surveillance powers documented by Snowden are turned on our elected representatives, which they inevitably will be, the concept of "national security" will be well and truly lost.
That's the real threat, the one that nobody ever talks about.