Discussion for article #223755
True enough. But most of us who were aware of what the Bush presidency was pursuing in National Security policy under the Patriot Act were hardly shocked by the ‘revelations.’ I still wonder why Snowden was ok with this until Obama became president. Was he driven by fear of government abuse under a liberal Democratic president more than the rightist regime that preceded it, the one that concocted the schemes he came to abhor? I still find that puzzling.
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I have a little less respect for Al Gore now.
Once again, a failure to distinguish between revealing domestic spying, which was of great value, from revealing foreign intelligence operations (to the public, but also in more detail to Russia and China, which got access to his computers), which was serious criminal conduct. The distinction is important, and needs to be made.
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It will be an interesting litmus test of sorts to see how various headlines and tweets cover Gore’s comments.
“Gore praises Snowden for providing an ‘important service’”
vs.
“Gore slams Snowden for having ‘violated the law’”
vs.
“Drooling Obama sycophant Al Gore spreads pernicious lie about Snowden committing crimes, uses statist platform to claim that you have no right to say ‘what he did was right’”
vs.
“Brave Patriot Al Gore denounces pernicious surveillance state in order to stand with Snowden”
vs.
“Fat Al Gore claims he invented the internet that Edward Snowden used to leak classified documents, which proves that global warming is a hoax”