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Re:Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Mo... by LLWM on Monday April 06, 2015 @02:51PM (#9329939)
The NSA is very explicit that their goal is to perform legal surveillance to safeguard the security of the US. Since the truth is secret, to believe either party's goals are as they say is purely a matter of trust.
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Re:Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Mo... by Estragon on Monday April 06, 2015 @04:18PM (#9330478)
The NSA has been proven to lie to its overseers repeatedly over the course of decades while Snowden has been proven to lie to the NSA in order to expose its lies. Personally, I regard Snowden's behavior to be more trustworthy in this respect.
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Re:Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Mo... by LLWM on Monday April 06, 2015 @05:16PM (#9330747)
Ah, the good old two-wrongs-make-a-right school of morality.
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Re:Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Mo... by adamnemecek on Monday April 06, 2015 @05:51PM (#9330905)
It's more of lesser of two evils school of morality.
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Re:Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Mo... by LLWM on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @09:32AM (#9333854)
As long as you recognize it's still evil.
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