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View submission: Tulsi Gabbard repeatedly declines to call Edward Snowden a traitor
There are mechanisms to be a whistle blower. He could've blown that stuff up. And that made him a hero.
Taking large amounts of classified data that even he admitted he had not read or vetted, only to dump it to someone else who then published all of it? Yeah, that makes you a traitor.
If he was doing it the right way, he could've read what he took and dropped what proved his point. But he didn't.
Comment by M3sothelioma at 02/02/2025 at 00:31 UTC*
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99% of the people in this sub aren’t IC members or have clearances and read-ons to see what he actually did. I’d wager many are probably conspiracy theorists or 1% types that have no clue how national security and force posturing works. They only see the part the media publicized, which was him exposing domestic surveillance. They don’t see the fact he exposed advanced technologies we were employing against near-peer adversaries, SAPs that had to be renamed or disbanded because they were compromised, and the damaging pieces of intel he handed over that weakened the US’s national security posture.
Edward Snowden is and always will be a traitor, and just because 1 good thing he did was for the benefit of Americans doesn’t make him a hero. A hero doesn’t save the cattle while leaving the rest of the farm to burn down.