Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency

Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by dnautics on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:09PM (#24860359)

(playing devil's advocate) you could make the argument that the suspicion that domestic surveillance was at that level was almost as high (if not higher).

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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by joshstrange on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:17PM (#24860446)

Except that people saying this was happening were labeled as conspiracy theorists by many. This is what people always forget when they pull out the "Yeah but we already knew that" no you didn't, you might have suspected it but there would always be plenty of people ready to shout you down saying "We don't know that for sure", "That has not been confirmed", "Take off your tin-foil hat".

I'd wager that the people clutching their pearls now talking about people being put at risk due to the leak are pretty much the same people saying it wasn't happening before the leak.

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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by dllthomas on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:37PM (#24860718)

Clinton's "we were already having these discussions" had me tempted to vote for Trump in 2016. Until Trump gave his position on the matter, which managed to be worse.

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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by Simulacra on Thursday October 22, 2020 @07:50PM (#24864613)

I was going to vote for Trump until he decided Snowden might get a Pardon. That is enough to flip my vote. Say no to treason.

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