So is the NSA security leaker a hero, villian or both?

[mrplunkey]

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations | World news | guardian.co.uk

 

[ismaele00]

I think the question is, how many rights can be waived for safety?
Obama said -surprisingly- a Universal truth: "You can't have 100% privacy and 100% safety".

 

[nydj66]

He broke the law and should be prosecuted. Do any of us believe there's an expectation of privacy when we use the internet anyway?

 

[Dial_tone]

I'm always uncomfortable with lackeys taking this sort of thing upon themselves.

 

[the_alcatraz]

He shared confidential information, broke a code of conduct, deliberated deceitful and spy-like actions against his government and employer...his head may have been in the right place, but there are avenues to be taken to reveal things like this to the public...

 

[redsamurai]

I'm waiting to see what else he comes out with. If he was telling the truth when he said him and the people like him could tap the president if he only "just felt like it"...then I believe more is going to come out which both him and the journalist have hinted at. If anyone noticed Obama sort of had a look on his face this week of a man who's had a new reality put on him, that he ain't as powerful as he thought he was. They told him to go out and defend the program and he smartly saluted with a yessir. This leaker seems to be hinting at that whats going on in reality is even above the POTUS's pay grade, and yes I'd like to hear about that shit don't know bout the rest of yous.

 

[the_alcatraz]

This is news to you guys? That big brother is watching? I don't get how this is a big revelation

 

[Jack steel]

He's a hero. Plain and simple. Maybe some of you prefer losing your freedom and beig lied to about how your tax dollars are spent or being watched at everything you do... But not this guy. I didn't fight for a nazi dictatorship. I fought for freedom (or at least I thought I did). This country is fubar. Blow those whistles loud and clear "whistle blowers" blow them like the sheeple blow Obama's dick. He's a tool and I mean that literally.

 

[redsamurai]

He's a hero. Plain and simple.

If he is releasing information as to the corruption and lies of our govt, how is he anything but? I don't how many of you cared to look at it but some of that wiki leaks stuff that Assange released was incredibly eye opening as to how our military and corporations do business abroad. There's a difference between outing our spies and outing corrupt ways and means of our govt. One is treasonous and the other is patriotic.

 

[the_alcatraz]

He's a hero. Plain and simple. Maybe some of you prefer losing your freedom and beig lied to about how your tax dollars are spent or being watched at everything you do... But not this guy. I didn't fight for a nazi dictatorship. I fought for freedom (or at least I thought I did). This country is fubar

I think the word hero is thrown around loosely quite a bit...technically, the information he released might jeopardize the safety of his country...apparently only 4 slides out of the original 13 (if I recall the number correctly) were released...they said the rest of the slides could make the US vulnerable...not sure what the total story is.