re: #39 Lidane

So we should accept Snowden’s lies because someone else may be lying about something else?

That Snowden is lying is not something either you or I can be definitive about. Whatever he’s doing it doesn’t look like it’s for the money, or for extra freedom to move around and walk down the street for a taco. He’s basically now a pawn, a bargaining chip, in whatever game the Chinese want to play, don’t you think? His life is gonna be in the dumpster for a long time, maybe forever.

All I’m saying (and nowhere do I say we should accept anything at face value, in fact I say the opposite pretty clearly I thought) is that we don’t know who’s lying. All we can do is speculate about who has the most to gain and the most to lose from doing so.
And I can assure you that my observations about the natural gravitational pull on intel gathering operations toward gathering everything is right on the money.
I myself don’t see how Snowden comes out on the bottom of the heap when looking at it like that, but you perhaps do. And that’s fine if so.