{"id":36272,"date":"2013-06-17T07:53:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T11:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36272"},"modified":"2013-06-17T07:53:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T11:53:35","slug":"cheney-snowden-is-a-traitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36272","title":{"rendered":"Cheney: Snowden is a traitor"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Huffington Post<\/a>, Former Vice president Dick Cheney told Fox News yesterday that Ed Snowden, the NSA contractor who has been releasing a slow stream of documents he stole from government computers on a flash drive to the media, is a traitor;<\/p>\n

“I think he’s a traitor,\u201d Cheney said of Snowden in an interview with \u201cFox News Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I think he has committed crimes in effect by violating agreements given the position he had,” he continued. “I think it’s one of the worst occasions in my memory of somebody with access to classified information doing enormous damage to the national security interests of the United States.”<\/p>\n

Cheney defended the NSA surveillance programs, claiming that the United States may have been able to prevent the deadly Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington if such monitoring practices had been in place in 2001.<\/p>\n

“As everybody who’s been associated with the program’s said, if we had had this before 9\/11, when there were two terrorists in San Diego — two hijackers — had been able to use that program, that capability, against that target, we might well have been able to prevent 9\/11,” Cheney said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I agree with Cheney that Snowden is a traitor, I don’t think that the NSA program will stop any terrorist attacks, nor would it have prevented 9\/11. The government is so good at ignoring pertinent information related to terrorist attacks, I’m not convinced they’re actually in the business of stopping terrorist attacks. The only terrorist attacks they’ve prevented are the ones that the Feds themselves incited.<\/p>\n

It didn’t prevent them from stopping Richard Reid and his shoe bombs, the Times Square bomber, the underwear bomber or any of the others – those terrorists were stopped by their own incompetence.<\/p>\n

Fox has been running interviews all morning with Snowden’s father who is trying to paint an innocent picture of his son with public opinion, which is what fathers do. But, Snowden did it to make a name for himself, and apparently, he’s been planning to do it since before he got his contractor job with Booze Allen. His father does plead with Snowden to stop releasing documents, which he should, let Congress do it it’s job for once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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