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Tulsi Gabbard Refused to Back Down on Edward Snowden. It Could Tank Her Nomination.
(theintercept.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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That's her only decent opinion and THAT is what's going to tank her nomination???
It's a bad look when the director of national intelligence supports someone who leaks intelligence secrets to enemy nations. It's a good reason to pass on her aside from all of her personal issues.
He leaked information to the citizens of the country doing the spying.
It's interesting you describe them as enemies
I believe the letter agencies consider the public their enemy #1, there some old ex CIA dude quote about it I'm too lazy to open Firefox to find
It's opposite decade in the US.
I find it hilarious that the 3 letter agencies are handing over big brother to the gustapo, without protest, while acting like they're the goodies... as though they aren't literally doing the exact thing Snowden warned everyone about — as a tool that will be turned against the people by domestic enemies.
And the best part? It only took 12 years post-leak for the worst case scenario to occur — for them to hand the keys to the entire kingdom over to fascism.
There's a lot of common sense, popular opinions that you can't have in Washington because there's a bipartisan consensus to do the opposite.