"Edward Snowden’s decision to leak a trove of secret documents outlining the NSA’s surveillance program has elicited a range of reactions. Among his detractors, he’s been called "a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in prison," (Jeffrey Toobin of The New Yorker), who’s committed "an act of treason," (Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee). To supporters, Snowden is a hero for showing that "our very humanity [is] being compromised by the blind implementation of machines in the name of making us safe," (author Douglas Rushkoff), one whom President Obama should "thank and offer him a job as a White House technology advisor," (American Conservative editor Scott McConnell). We host a debate with two guests: Chris Hedges, a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and former Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times, and Geoffrey Stone, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Stone served as an informal adviser to President Obama in 2008, years after hiring him to teach constitutional law." - Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/12/is_edward_snowden_a_hero_a
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radxsays...Authoritarian goons like Jeffrey Toobin make my blood boil. We have a word for these folks: Blockwart. And don't even get me started about Sen. Feinstein or Rep. King...
MrFisksays..."Well, we’re talking about the death of a free press, the death of a civil society. This is far beyond a reasonable debate. We make the East German Stasi state look like the Boy Scouts. And if we don’t wrest back this power for privacy, for the capacity to investigate what our power elite is doing, I think we can essentially say our democracy has been snuffed out." - Chris Hedges
Yogisays...I'd call him a Responsible and Moral human being. He saw something wrong, and he did something. Isn't that what we were supposed to do after 9/11? See something, say something? Well that's what he did, in service of the American people, and against the Empire.
cosmovitellisays...Its dangerous to be a better man than your masters..
Hive13says...No, he isn't. At all.
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