re: #106 Bubblehead II

But remember, Greenwald, Poitras, and the Guardian were all about Snowden being a whistle blower on how the NSA was spying on Americans and violating Americans’ civil liberties. Turns out that his cache of documents was a whole lot more about revealing national security secrets, methods, and tactics for keeping the nation safe from terrorists, revealing tactics used in missions to get OBL, etc., than actual violations of civil rights of Americans. And the violations that were made public indicated that the NSA and FISC were already working to rectify their issues without prying eyes. After all, that’s how we know that there were issues - the Snowden cache included reports by the FISC and IG.

Greenwald and Poitras and the dudebros are pissed that the US spies - period. They’re upset at any kind of intel gathering, and now we’ve got the WaPo publishing all these details that were part of the Snowden cache.

They’re interesting and do shed more light on what the intel community does, but is it really helpful to anyone other than the terrorists?