Excellent point. Then he'd probably be on the 'shoot the traitor!' side. A lot of people have known that the government was vacuuming up a lot more information than they were legally authorized to do, and this blows their thin veil of secrecy apart. I think this is a good thing, it's far too much information for the government to have.
I wonder if he's still in the "Bradley Manning = traitor" camp. What Manning did is pretty tame compared to what Snowden leaked.
This is something that I've had an issue against Obama since his beginning. In many ways, he's Bush's third (and now fourth) term, and this is one of them. Pundits call him a socialist liberal, but really he's a liberal conservative in my book. Bush seized too much power, and Obama has continued and expanded it, and now it's going to bite his administration in the butt. The Benghazi thing was a non-event, regardless of the Republican's slavering over it. The IRS "scandal" also is pretty much a non-event. The Associated Press seizing of phone records? That's definitely pushing it. But PRISM? It's a good thing for Obama that he's already in his second term.
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Date: 2013-06-11 06:08 pm (UTC)I wonder if he's still in the "Bradley Manning = traitor" camp. What Manning did is pretty tame compared to what Snowden leaked.
This is something that I've had an issue against Obama since his beginning. In many ways, he's Bush's third (and now fourth) term, and this is one of them. Pundits call him a socialist liberal, but really he's a liberal conservative in my book. Bush seized too much power, and Obama has continued and expanded it, and now it's going to bite his administration in the butt. The Benghazi thing was a non-event, regardless of the Republican's slavering over it. The IRS "scandal" also is pretty much a non-event. The Associated Press seizing of phone records? That's definitely pushing it. But PRISM? It's a good thing for Obama that he's already in his second term.