re: #194 GeneJockey

Jesus. Lemme see if I can ‘splain it to you:

Snowden stole secret information about our foreign intelligence gathering in such volume that he could not possibly have vetted it to see what should and should not be released, EVEN IF he were qualified to judge it, which he’s not.

He then fled to NOT ONE, BUT TWO of our largest potential adversaries, making it highly likely that they now have everything he stole.

Now he is trying to blackmail the USG into giving him a pardon by threatening to divulge things that would do EVEN MORE harm to America - a country that he claims to love but which he is threatening to harm for his own convenience and comfort.

This is pretty much exactly the opposite of a patriot, to sacrifice his country for himself.

But he’s just like Nelson Mandela.