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To: TobagoJack who wrote (101431)6/23/2013 5:07:11 PM
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My take on the whole brouhaha on the disclosure made by Edward Snowden is more about the revelation of the shortcomings of the US intelligence community to gather information about those types that intend to hurt us, than actual the disclosure of treasonous secrets.

IMHO it proved very high incompetence of gathering information by very high paid people employed by the various intelligence gathering agencies , who do not do it successfully the old and proven way with people on the field and basically relaying on gathering vast amounts of personal information which in a nutshell violates the US constitution and makes the US today more like Stalin Russia of the cold war.

IMHO all those screaming “murder” do nothing more than promoting their own political careers by using a well-advertised incident which most Americans and the Western World or the world at large does not fully understand, or even ignores and this is very shameful.

As to the actual damage made by those leaks IMHO they are meaningless as I can guaranty that each spy agency around the world does the same and everyone in the intelligence community knows that, and more so they know who does what and how. The problem is more of the incompetence to understand who does it and why and how they interpret it. As everything else in warfare the guys that make less mistakes and are more open minded winn.

To best understand this analogy it is like the “rounded corners” patent on the IPhone which Samsung supposedly "copied" and infringed on a patent. So to all those hunting Snowden please get a life and do something meaningful and helpful to our society, after all there is so much to do and help.

The amounts of money spend on “repatriating “ Edward Snowden should be put to better use, like education for those that cannot afford and make America great.

As to the various elected members of congress, please find another subject that really will improve our quality of life, generate more work places and leave this chap, Edward Snowden alone after all it is a failure of the NSA and not Edward Snowden
Unrelated but more to the point the untimely or ill-timed FED Chairman revelation of ending the QE inflicted substantial more damage to the US economy and security than Edward Snowden leaks and it even can be measured in $$ with the appropriate multipliers
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