Snowden wants to come home; "If i fall out a window, i was pushed"; DoJ after his book money

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i hear you

but theres ways to go about it...snowden isn't the model...and if he's not secure about that, he should have thought about that

I don't know what the appropriate route for this would be.

I don't fully trust the US government, and there should be appropriate checks and balances in place. We had none. We still have none. At least the general public knows what is possible, not that they give a fukk. It was laughable to people even on this website to suggest that the government did this level of monitoring it's own citizens prior to this reveal.

A bad precedent has been set in my opinion, and will only allow for bad actors and a complacent public in the future.
 

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He'll probably definitely be offed. I just don't believe what he did was all that goofy.
It wasn't what he did, it was how he did it.

He's hiding behind whistleblowing while he was committing espionage for a foreign nation. Whether he knew exactly what he was doing at the time is a realistic debate but who he ultimately benefited is not. He proved his awareness of that by never providing incriminating information about the host nations he used for asylum after the fact. He underestimated the response of the US government and the protection he would receive after the fact, thinking he would live his life as a dissident on the other side of the world.

Now he's doing interviews like a hostage looking for a better situation but no, you can't come back home, love don't live here anymore.
 

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It wasn't what he did, it was how he did it.

He's hiding behind whistleblowing while he was committing espionage for a foreign nation. Whether he knew exactly what he was doing at the time is a realistic debate but who he ultimately benefited is not. He proved his awareness of that by never providing incriminating information about the host nations he used for asylum after the fact. He underestimated the response of the US government and the protection he would receive after the fact, thinking he would live his life as a dissident on the other side of the world.

Now he's doing interviews like a hostage looking for a better situation but no, you can't come back home, love don't live here anymore.

Got you.

I wasn't aware of the espionage angle. I'll have to look deeper into that.
 

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Should he have posted a massive twitter thread?

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