That said, Snowden is an ex-CIA employee. I don’t think I would trust any ex-CIA employee. I can’t. Sorry. I wish him well and hope he is for real but he crossed a certain line when he took that CIA job.
I see your point, but if you look at his motivations for joining they were pretty good and pretty common at the time, in my opinion. There was a lot of mass hysteria in the USA after 9/11 (pumped up vociferously by the media and from the shock of the attacks themselves) and many joined the military, etc. for what they saw as their patriotic duty to defend our nation from an outside attack. That was a different time before the Internet reached the point it has today where much more alternative information is at most everyone’s fingertips (if they bother to look).
Look at the Pat Tillman fiasco. He joined the military for what I would regard as very pure reasons and once he started to question things he got fragged. Of course, when the Army investigates itself, it just calls it friendly fire after the cover up got exposed.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/04/22/jb-campbell-killing-pat-tillman/
Was Pat Tillman a person you’d be suspicious of if he were alive today because he chose to join the military for what he thought was good reasons at the time?
Unlike most who only offer words, Snowden has shown with his actions what kind of person he is and what kind of true patriot he is as well. I wish more people of conscience would get involved in their government and help change it from within like he has. But, sitting on the sidelines complaining from the peanut gallery is much easier, I suppose.
I don’t agree with a lot of the tactics and overreach of the CIA, but I also can’t hold that against someone like Snowden who chose to do the right thing when it really counted and at great personal cost. I also don’t think everyone and anyone who is involved with the CIA or has been involved with the CIA is evil or untrustworthy. It depends on who they are as a person to me.
