2013: It's treason!
â Edward Snowden (@Snowden) May 30, 2016
2014: Maybe not, but it was reckless
2015: Still, technically it was unlawful
2016: It was a public service but
2017:
2016 1/2: Well, fuck me. Sorry, everyone.
Snowden has received assurances from the US government that if he turns himself in, he wonât be torturedâŚ
⌠which is a marked improvement over earlier assurances that he would not be subjected to âcruelâ or âunusualâ punishments.
Iâm shocked. âProperâ channels didnât work?
Whatâs messed up is that this is the least part of the story. We still havenât scratched the surface of the things Snowden revealed. Instead we end up talking about the man.
and he tried to avoid that for most of the first year but eventually gave up and now uses his notoriety for public speaking (which I approve of) on these issues.
The plan to keep the spotlight off him and on the issues was a noble one; but since basically everyone else refused to cooperate, itâs hard to blame him for choosing âuse spotlight on me to talk about the issuesâ as the next best alternative. He certainly did try to avoid it coming to that, though.
Not only did they not work; up until now they didnât work and then denied that he had ever tried them. Classy.
I donât get it - Iâve read the Vice article, and as far as I can see, the docs the NSA dumped do not do what the headline claims. Snowden may well have raised his concerns about spying, but the article doesnât show that. It spends 11,000 words describing one single email that Snowden sent asking a general question about executive orders, and thatâs the only email the NSA could find from Snowden remotely related to the law.
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