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Re:Snowden Wikipedia page edited to label him a "traitor" fr... by 9ac345a5509a on Friday August 02, 2013 @10:27PM (#6150806)
There is no evidence that this is a Senator or anyone in a position of power. It is more likely that it is just a bored intern.
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Re:Snowden Wikipedia page edited to label him a "traitor" fr... by detcader on Friday August 02, 2013 @10:29PM (#6150816)
No one's claiming that it is a Senator, but then again, is this what my tax dollars are funding?
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Re:Snowden Wikipedia page edited to label him a "traitor" fr... by qq66 on Friday August 02, 2013 @10:47PM (#6150865)
Yes, your tax dollars are funding this, but they are funding much worse. In terms of the useless: a friend ordered a $25,000 computer with 192 GB of RAM because he had a research grant for computer hardware that he had to use up. In terms of the horrifying: Extrajudicial murder of civilians.
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Re:Snowden Wikipedia page edited to label him a "traitor" fr... by detcader on Friday August 02, 2013 @11:01PM (#6150900)
I wasn't being serious; this was all likely just a prank anyway
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Re:Snowden Wikipedia page edited to label him a "traitor" fr... by impendia on Friday August 02, 2013 @10:56PM (#6150887)
Yes, in addition to all of the surveillance programs being discussed, as well as the salaries of the people who lied to Congress about it.
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Re:Snowden Wikipedia page edited to label him a "traitor" fr... by eli on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @11:05AM (#6166957)
If it makes you feel any better, many (most?) Senate interns are unpaid.
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Re:Snowden Wikipedia page edited to label him a "traitor" fr... by peterg2 on Friday August 02, 2013 @10:48PM (#6150868)
Honestly, this is the most likely answer. I doubt it would be a Senator.
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Re:Snowden Wikipedia page edited to label him a "traitor" fr... by cheald on Saturday August 03, 2013 @05:03AM (#6151549)
If only because that would actually require the Senator to be able to actually understand the technology to a degree necessary to make a Wikipedia edit.
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