ruveyn wrote:
Manning did a good deed. It is well known that no good deed will go unpunished.
ruveyn
I'm not sure what to think of what he did.
In a way, it was information that did not deserve to be kept secret, but I question how altruistic his motives were.
Still, you do something like that, you better be prepared for the consequences.
People want to demonize what Snowden did as well. They love to criticize that he ran to Hong Kong and then Russia, well, had he thought it through more, he would have had multiple passports and a way to "disappear" before he did what he did. Clearly the NSA didn't teach him all of that stuff.
He went to Hong Kong probably because they would fight extradition (and indeed let him leave the country before the US could complete the process). He was in Russia when his passport was cancelled.
What have WE done? We illegally diverted a diplomatic flight because we thought Snowden might be on board. That's an act of war, but we risked it anyhow.
If Snowden has so many "secrets" and is a traitor, why hasn't he doled them out yet? It's hard to see him as the evil villain the government wants him to be remembered as.
01 Aug 2013, 7:50 am
