I would be for repealing the Patriot Act, was never for it. Homeland Security too.
That said, I would also cut 'Contractors,' = 'Blood Suckers' that pilfer taxpayers monies.
Tooooo many contractors have 'clearance' for sensitive materials.
We have military coming home, serving this country, their lives on the line. Train them for this work.
Many Americans are very comfortable 'sharing' personal info online. Ever read Facebook? Amazing & scary.
There is a balancing act that is required.
Its good Americans know.
As for Snowden, my personal opinion has changed for several reasons.
1. I have learned the justice dept, the congress & Obama all knew about this program. (that makes it legal NOT rogue)
2. Snowden releasing info about China went over the line.
3. He has several computers & memory sticks with classified info. Now, all of that is at risk, that goes wayyyyy beyond 'whistle-blowing.'
4. He took an oath.
5. He left the US for Hong Kong/China, Russia & looks to be going to Cuba. Fleeing to them for EASE DROPPING! are you kidding me....
His own words dig him deeper & deeper.
EXCLUSIVE: Snowden sought Booz Allen job to gather evidence on NSA surveillance
Edward Snowden tells the Post he took a job at NSA contractor Booz Allen Hamilton to collect proof of surveillance programme.
Edward Snowden secured a job with a US government contractor for one reason alone – to obtain evidence on Washington’s cyberspying networks, the South China Morning Post can reveal.
For the first time, Snowden has admitted he sought a position at Booz Allen Hamilton so he could collect proof about the US National Security Agency’s secret surveillance programmes ahead of planned leaks to the media.
“My position with Booz Allen Hamilton granted me access to lists of machines all over the world the NSA hacked,” he told the Post on June 12. “That is why I accepted that position about three months ago.”
During a global online chat last week, Snowden also stated he took pay cuts “in the course of pursuing specific work”.
His admission comes as US officials voiced anger at Hong Kong, and indirectly Beijing, after the whistle-blower was allowed to leave the city on Sunday.
Snowden is understood to be heading for Ecuador to seek political asylum with the help of WikiLeaks, which claimed to have secured his safe passage to the South American country.
Snowden, who arrived in Hong Kong on May 20, first contacted documentary maker Laura Poitras in January, claiming to have information about the intelligence community. But it was several months later before Snowden met Poitras and two British reporters in the city.
He spent the time collecting a cache of classified documents as a computer systems administrator at Booz Allen Hamilton.
In his interview with the Post, Snowden divulged information that he claimed showed hacking by the NSA into computers in Hong Kong and mainland China.
“I did not release them earlier because I don’t want to simply dump huge amounts of documents without regard to their content,” he said.
“I have to screen everything before releasing it to journalists.”
Asked if he specifically went to Booz Allen Hamilton to gather evidence of surveillance, he replied: “Correct on Booz.”
His intention was to collect information about the NSA hacking into “the whole world” and “not specifically Hong Kong and China”.
The documents he divulged to the Post were obtained during his tenure at Booz Allen Hamilton in April, he said.
He also signalled his intention to leak more of those documents at a later date.
“If I have time to go through this information, I would like to make it available to journalists in each country to make their own assessment, independent of my bias, as to whether or not the knowledge of US network operations against their people should be published.”
Two days after Snowden broke cover in Hong Kong as the source of the NSA leaks, Booz Allen Hamilton sacked him.
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