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[–] Gerplunckamo 5 points -4 points (+1|-5) ago 

Yes, actually, because that's precisely what he ended up doing. Its why he's hiding out in Russia, and has only released information that is damning to the west.

Whatever he was before he left the states, he is now an FSB asset, to be utilized by the Russian state department against American interests.

It doesn't excuse what our government did, but giving state secrets to the enemy, from the safety of the enemy's home is an entirely different matter altogether.

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[–] glUniform4fv 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

The enemy he gave the information to are exactly three journalists: Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald and Ewen McAskill. And he was very hesistant to give it to McAskill. He tried to establish contact with Greenwald for over a year before he contacted Poitras, who then established contact with Greenwald. He waited that long because he would not give anyone the information he didn't trust; he was searching for a journalist with integrity.

All information published had names and other identifying information redacted. It is literally just education on what the NSA is capable of doing and has been doing.

Please, explain what you mean by "giving state secrets to the enemy". Was that biased rhetoric and you actually meant to say "giving state secrets to everyone affected"? Or did you really think that Snowden gave something specifically to the Chinese or Russian government that was not published elsewhere?

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[–] Gerplunckamo 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

So let me get this straight, you honestly believe that the Russian government, which is just as much a surveillance state, with one of the worst records of human rights atrocities, is letting Mr. Snowden stay rent free in their nation on humanitarian grounds.

Or the fact that you think he's doing the world a service by being an outspoken critic of American surveillance, yet finds himself surrounded by an intricate, repressive regime, and is in fact not a hypocrite?

Protip: Out of the 1.7 Million files he collected, only 200,000 were given to those journalists. Just under 15% of the files he handed out went to the press. But I'm sure he didn't have plans for the rest of it, right?

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[–] Vespera 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I suppose without Edward Snowden being completely transparent we'll never be able to tell - but he also wouldn't had been able to accomplish what he did otherwise.