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June 28, 2013
The Errors of Edward Snowden and His Global Hypocrisy Tour
Would Snowden have been outraged that the United States was intercepting Japanese data at a time when the countries were not at war?
It took years to crack the Purple code—would Snowden think the United States should have waited until after Pearl Harbor to tap into Japanese communication lines, and only then begin the arduous effort to break the code? And if not, then what is his point in turning over these kinds of secrets to the Chinese? -- | Vanity Fair
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 28, 2013 11:24 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
I agree, not everything the NSA is doing is horrible. I wasn't particularly upset with the US tracking and listening in on phone calls between foreign terrorists and US citizens. My problem is the collection and collation of EVERYTHING that people in the US are doing. That's a bit too far for my tastes.
But Snowden? I don't really care about him or his fate. I don't like the whole "enemy of my enemy" calculus, maybe he's a rotten guy, maybe he IS a foreign spy. Its what he revealed that matters, not the guy himself.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 28, 2013 12:50 PM
Communism didn't work because they didn't have the technology to watch everyone all the time.
Now they have that technology.
Posted by: potsie at June 28, 2013 7:41 PM
I find no particular tension between the ideas that Snowden is a far left POS and that our government metastasized in 1933. Snowden does not understand that he is a traitor to his own cause.
There is no enemy of the US that did not already understand the degree of surveillance which the NSA was capable of. The only people which the FIB catches are the low hanging rotten fruit, and then not even when Putin fingers one for them.
Posted by: james wilson at June 29, 2013 9:45 AM
Mr. Jones, we are left with reading between the lines. His arrangement was made with a far left reporter and newspaper, one. Two, he sees China as a swell place, and no enemy to anyone. Three, he made the statement that he was an Obama supporter, but not an Obama voter. This implies--to me--that that he is the kind of individual for whom Obama is too centrist. I know a few. All of them are so confident of their intellects and gifts of rationality that they swear, and believe, they have no politics.
Posted by: james wilson at June 29, 2013 10:42 AM