If you think Snowden should be pardoned, you don't know all he did. He disclosed secrets to China: our surveillance for gathering info on its nuke program was instantly destroyed. So Russia shut down arms talks cause they knew we were blind on China.../1 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/06/errors-edward-snowden-global-hypocrisy-tour
...in other words, just that ONE thing destabilized global nuclear arms control. Why? Either because he is some stupid arrogant schmuck who didn't know what he was revealing, or he was a spy all along. Why tell China OUR secrets? He revealed.../2
..our surveillance through Pacnet EAC-C2C fiber-optic submarine cable network in Asia. That, too, was wrecked. We lost surveillance abilities of communications between Hong Kong, China, Korea, Taiwan, etc. Did we miss info that night have helped with HK democracy movement?../3
...maybe. Did we miss info in Asia that might have saved lives? Maybe. Who knows? All I DO know is that I don't Edward Fucking Snowden decided, based on his ZERO knowledge, what foreign intel we need and what we dont. Oh, there's more. Right after Snowden revealed our.../4
...surveillance methods to China, they launched a massive surveillance campaign in Tibetan villages, which results in political re-education of those who questioned presence of Communist Party security units. And we could find out NOTHING because of Edward Fucking Snowden.../5
...Edward Fucking Snowden was our worst intel leak ever. He wants to reveal NSA domestic stuff (which wasn't what he said. Neither he nor Greenwald understood it.) Ok, fine. But that was the Trojan Horse he used to leak MASSIVE amounts of intel to foreign adversaries.../6
...There was a point where CIA thought Snowden could be a spy for China because of the volumes of material he gave to them. I dont know where that stands. All I do know is there is no way Edward Fucking Snowden is going to come back to America and tell us about Russia. Because..7
...like most people who create heroes out of liars and frauds (See: Cult45, Donald Trump), the Snowden-o-philes dont know what he is or what he did. And if Trump gives him a pardon? Well, China will be laughing it's ass off. So will Putin. And every US enemy that Snowden helped.
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