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Originally Posted by Squirtit
The optics of Snowden stealing top secret information from us, fleeing, and becoming a resident of Russia, puts him on the wrong side of history in the eyes of most of those to lazy to research and form their own opinion, before the facts change.  |
1. Snowden is a snoop. He was hired to be a snoop, he snooped and then snooped his employers.
2. by his own account, he lied to gain employment at NSA with an *idea* of snooping them.
3. he fled after snooping to an adversarial state, China. And continuing without any plan or forethought whatsofuckingever, jumps CHina for Russia, THE primary state adversary of this country.
4. Each and every one of the leakers that came before Snowden that leaked exactly the same sort of data that Snowden leaked faced their charges and were ultimately exonerated, the previous one is making bank on a talk circuit and wond kudos and accolades.
5. by being such a complete idiot who leaked such a massive amount of data he ended up being a international political football between the 2 hugest adversarial states in the world.
6. He can already be pointed to as a catalyst for the Arab spring by revealing the secret correspondences of Arab dictators
7. It's not what he did, it's his keystone cops exit strategy that created conflict between the 2 nations.
IMO, of course there will be a next big war. Snowden started shit in th emiddle east with his thoughtless plan, he can certainly be a part of anything that may come b/w Russia and USA.