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Re: This guy Bergdahl

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Hi D&O,

The number of documents Snowden removed is not known. The NSA has said up to 1.3m, but that means somewhere between 1 and 1.3m. Greenwald has suggested serious exaggeration in the top side total.

Snowden took a particular category of document - the ones that reveal the violation of people's privacy.

His aim wasn't to defend himself under US law. It was to live abroad.

Re Bergdahl - it will be interesting to discover why he did things the way he did. But I hate this trial by press thing. It happens again and again so that people have hardened judgments long before they should.


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Re: This guy Bergdahl
By: Down And Out Man
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Thu, 05 Jun 14 12:44 AM
Msg. 15523 of 54959

as regards snowden's emails, he is unlikely to have copies of them and the nsa won't share the ones which are inconvenient to their case against him.

That seems kind of odd, doesn't it? To go to the effort to pilfer "hundreds of thousands" of documents, but not to keep your own attempted internal "whistle blowing" writings? Especially when you know that once you make the pilfered docs public, you are going to be vilified (and worse)?

re: Bergdahl - I wasn't in the military, so I don't know how to extricate oneself from a war he becomes morally opposed to. But surely one could get himself thrown in the brig and dishonorably discharged without deserting and walking over to the enemy?


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