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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSnowden PROVES NO ONE should be Above the Law!!11!!1
And here's why, from a Big Enemy of Leakers Everywhere:
"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."
If you believe that, then, I guess things today in the USA are hunkey-dorey.
randome
(34,845 posts)That should tell you where Snowden falls on the scale of trustworthiness. You know if his claims had a smidgen of evidence behind them, Wikileaks would scoop him up in an instant.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023101737
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Octafish
(55,745 posts)William Binney. Russell Tice. Thomas Drake.
http://www.democracynow.org/topics/nsa/2
randome
(34,845 posts)And the program they wanted stopped was canceled. Granted, they had to go through hell to get it stopped and that should not have happened.
But I'm not going to believe that the NSA is 'spying on everybody' without some evidence.
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NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)He obtained the job for the sole reason of committing a crime, but thinks he should be able to hide out in Equador where he can't be touched.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Do you think the president should be able to use his power to avoid justice?
I don't.
Look at what Poppy Bush did during Iran-Contra.
That was treason that went unpunished. And it opened up a lot of doors to the traitors ever since.
DontTreadOnMe
(2,442 posts)The guy on the far left seems just a little too happy.
railsback
(1,881 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Nixon was a protege of Prescott and mentored poppy.
I was wondering what the photo's context is myself.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)I believe behind Nixon, his face partially obscured by a hat, are the eyebrows of Jim Wright (D-Texas), once the Speaker of the House.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)msongs
(67,478 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)The trial of Daniel Ellsberg...
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ellsberg/ellsbergaccount.html
Rex
(65,616 posts)IF ONLY that was true bro. The worst of them get a library built in their name and the least of them get military prison with no actual court date.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)and - if would be tyrants like Snowden would try to block the government from keeping track of all our Internet activity by informing the public - Then in time - the government's ability to control the population and put a stop to those who would defy authority, talk back to power and cause trouble will be abridged - Then we will find ourselves living in country where authority is at the mercy of the people instead of the people at the mercy of authority. Who on earth would want to live in country like that?
As Jefferson put it, "When the people are afraid of authority - we have freedom. When authority is afraid of the people - we have tyranny." (or it was something like that- I'm really not sure)