When Edward Snowden burst on the scene two
weeks, many hailed him for being willing to shed light on the Obama
Regime’s spying on American citizens. As Snowden revealed details of an
American leadership mad on power, many conservatives cheered him.
Now Snowden has gone from being a whistleblower to being a traitor.
Why is Edward Snowden a traitor?
From the New York Times:
A Russian law enforcement official
quoted anonymously by Interfax said that the Russian authorities had
taken unusual measures to protect Mr. Snowden. “This was done so that
nothing threatened Edward Snowden, so that he could spend the night
calmly in a capsule hotel and fly to Russia without problems,” the
official was quoted as saying.
Mr. Snowden is reportedly carrying four
laptop computers with American intelligence documents that he downloaded
to a thumb drive this spring while working in Hawaii for the National
Security Agency as an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton.
The Guardian newspaper of Britain disclosed a week ago that Mr. Snowden
had provided the newspaper with documents showing that during a
conference in London in 2009, the United States was able to access the communications of Dmitri A...,
then the Russian president and now the prime minister. That disclosure
will almost certainly cause Russia to review its codes and other
procedures for top leaders.
Dmitri V. Trenin, director of the
Carnegie Moscow Center, said he considered it likely that Mr. Snowden
would remain in Russia, a country that is increasingly positioning
itself as a protector of people like Mr. Assange, whom Western
governments wish to prosecute.
“I don’t think there is any other
country that would stand up to U.S. pressure, which will be tremendous,”
Mr. Trenin said. “The Chinese don’t want to spoil their relationship
with the United States. Russia is sometimes embracing conflict with the
U.S.”
He noted that Russia Today, the
state-financed English-language cable news channel, has become a
platform for figures like Mr. Assange, who are unlikely to appear
through mainstream Western news outlets.
It is one thing to blow the whistle on the
unlawful spying on Americans by the government. It is quite another to
share American intelligence with foreign nations that may have hostile
intent towards America.
There is a point where we might have been able to thank Snowden for doing something to help America.
It now appears that his blowing the whistle
on the NSA domestic spying program was only a pretense so he could sell
American secrets to the highest bidder.
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