Sunday, June 23, 2013

SNOWDEN: Is he a traitor?






Edward Snowden, the civilian contractor at the NSA (National Security Agency) has stolen “secrets” from his employer (NSA) and has gone public with them? Or has he taken them to China to sell? What the hell is going on and what are these “secrets”?

A “whistleblower” by its very definition, is someone that discovers some type of malfeasance in a company or government agency and takes that information to a higher authority that can do something about this malfeasance or to a media outlet like a newspaper or television network to expose this malfeasance. In some cases, the whistleblower stands to make a lot of money if his revelation of wrong-doing saves the company or the government a lot of money.

Snowden is not a whistleblower because he took his information which has something to do with “spying” which all countries do, and ran to another country; in this case, Hong Kong, China which we spy on as they spy on us, to do what…sell our spying secrets?

Some people were initially calling him some kind of “hero” for doing something “good” but in reality, he is now looked on as a criminal and more importantly, a traitor to his country which I think is something people get shot for.

It is interesting that he fled to China and now has flown to Russia and is expected to fly to Cuba and then on to Venezuela; all countries we are not the best of friends with.

Some say he is trying to get “asylum” which is a place of “refuge” from harm as in keeping the U.S. from extraditing him back to the U.S. to stand trial on charges of stealing secret data from the NSA and therefore harming U.S. interests. Since we have extradition treaties with most countries, he has to fly to those countries which are not our friends and do not have extradition treaties with us.

It appears that WikiLeaks and the infamous Julian Assange is helping Snowden out and Assange must know how to avoid prosecution successfully since he is an expert in the art of revealing secrets and staying out of jail through asylum seeking.

The NSA obviously now realizes how utterly unwise their operations are when civilian contractors to do all your top secret work…maybe you should have smart people running your agency…you think?

I am all for revealing information that once revealed will somehow benefit the general public in some fundamental way but to reveal information just to create chaos just because you can or just because your twisted mind thinks it is the right thing to do, well I think those people need to be made examples of and letting them go unpunished is not a good thing for the general public and will encourage budding assholes working in some top secret department somewhere.

 

 

 

 

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