Snowden: Government Exploiting 9/11 To Justify Spying

Posted by | May 29, 2014 13:11 | Filed under: Politics Top Stories

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One of the items to come out of the Brian Williams interview with Edward Snowden was his view that 9/11 is being exploited by the United States government to justify spying on its citizens.

“I take the threat of terrorism seriously, and I think we all do,” the former National Security Agency contractor said. “And I think it’s really disingenuous for the government to invoke and sort of scandalize our memories to sort of exploit the national trauma that we all suffered together and worked so hard to come through, and justify programs that have never been shown to keep us safe but cost us liberties and freedoms that we don’t need to give up, and our Constitution says we should not give up.”…

In another part of the interview with Williams, Snowden said that he sees himself as a “patriot.”

“Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen from the — the violations of an — and encroachments of adversaries,” he said, as quoted by NBC News. “And those adversaries don’t have to be foreign countries.”

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6 responses to Snowden: Government Exploiting 9/11 To Justify Spying

  1. Debra Watkins May 29th, 2014 at 14:50

    Yea, like he’s an expert.

    • granpa.usthai May 29th, 2014 at 15:30

      perhaps President Putin is encouraging Edward to become a rambling philosophical rumor monger?
      Geez, all this ‘newly discovered’ naivete: good thing he’s been set high above the average lifestyle of the Russian Military Officials otherwise, he might not enjoy his visit to the Moscow Airport so much?

  2. Debra Watkins May 29th, 2014 at 14:50

    Yea, like he’s an expert.

    • granpa.usthai May 29th, 2014 at 15:30

      perhaps President Putin is encouraging Edward to become a rambling philosophical rumor monger?
      Geez, all this ‘newly discovered’ naivete: good thing he’s been set high above the average lifestyle of the Russian Military Officials otherwise, he might not enjoy his visit to the Moscow Airport so much?

  3. granpa.usthai May 29th, 2014 at 15:38

    For the factual Historical Record:

    J. Edgar was PRE 9/11/2001.

    A. Cesar was PRE J. Edgar

    Ramasee the Great was PRE A. Cesar

    Cain was PRE Ramasee the Great

    ‘spying’ on your own people has been around for quite some time.

  4. granpa.usthai May 29th, 2014 at 15:38

    For the factual Historical Record:

    J. Edgar was PRE 9/11/2001.

    A. Cesar was PRE J. Edgar

    Ramasee the Great was PRE A. Cesar

    Cain was PRE Ramasee the Great

    ‘spying’ on your own people has been around for quite some time.

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