"Edward Snowden has blown the whistle on this presidency.You have to wonder: Will Obama see out..."

[mia]

his full term?"

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100220938/edward-snowden-has-blown-the-whistle-on-this-presidency-you-have-to-wonder-will-obama-see-out-his-full-term/

"They could pay off the Triads," says Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower interviewed by the Guardian in his Hong Kong hideout. Meaning: the CIA could use a proxy to kill him for revealing that Barack Obama has presided over an unimaginable – to the ordinary citizen – expansion of the Federal government's powers of surveillance over anyone.

Libertarians and conspiracy theorists of both Left and Right will never forget this moment. Already we have Glenn Beck hailing Snowden on Twitter:


Courage finally. Real. Steady. Thoughtful. Transparent. Willing to accept the consequences. Inspire w/Malice toward none.#edwardsnowden

Snowden will be a Right-wing hero as well as a Left-libertarian one. Why? First, he thought carefully about what he should release, avoiding (he says) material that would harm innocent individuals. Second, he's formidably articulate. Quotes like the following are pure gold for opponents of Obama who've been accusing the President of allowing the Bush-era "surveillance state" to extend its tentacles even further:

[Skittles]

1. ridiculous overreach

bush allowed the biggest terrorist attack in American history, downed a city, started two senseless wars, endorsed torture, etc - and what happened to him?

[mia]

4. Nothing will happen to Obama either. n/t

[Skittles]

7. well no shit

here, let the Rude Pundit explain:

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2013/06/nsa-phone-record-collecting-and.html

[mia]

11. Thanks for the link.

Well said - deserves it's own thread.

[Champion Jack]

14. ++++

[Cha]

2. Yeah, I'm real scared..

Not.

[MADem]

3. The TELEGRAPH leans so far to the right that it might topple over in a light breeze. nt

[regnaD kciN]

5. It isn't known as the "Torygraph" for nothing...

[dipsydoodle]

10. Its only known as that by virtue of The Eye.

in the same way that The Guardian is The Grauniad and their Sunday edition , The Observer , as The Absurder.

The Telegraph is also know as The Hello!graph, The Telavivagraph , The Maily Telegraph and The Daily Mailograph,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_and_organisations_frequently_parodied_by_Private_Eye

These go back to the '70s and largely lose context outside of the UK.

[graham4anything]

6. I was going to answer, however as this is now 100% debunked, it's not worth the time/effort. nt

[pnwmom]

8. Why? Because he continued a program authorized under the Patriot Act

of collecting telephone numbers without identifying data? Or because he continued another authorized program, PRISM, that collected information on foreign-based terrorists?

[TomClash]

12. LOL

To say the President won't serve out his full term is absurd. The National Security State hasno reason to remove him and no one else remotely had the power to remove him. If he could run for a third term, he would win easily.

[UTUSN]

13. I've got *nothing* of this blog-"wondering" thing going on!1 n/t