[TheRealThing]

It doesn't surprise me one bit that you hold a traitor in such high regard.

I have said that Snowden should be prosecuted for stealing and disclosing classified information. The same should be done with the leakers who work within the Obama administration. My position is totally consistent. Your's? Not so much.

I heard on the news late in the week, that there have been other NSA/CIA employees that chose to question the practice of information 'gathering' on individuals. One of those who chose to challenge legitimacy wound up taking his case to court. Any body on here remember hearing one word about it? I know I don't. The would be whistle blowers of the recent past have been dispatched so quickly and news of their stories buried so effectively, nobody has heard a thing about all of this. So, I ask you, what would it take to get America's attention on this matter? Somebody like Snowden who is willing to martyr himself to get the word out?

Of course he will be maligned for his action and yet, in view of the failed attempts of his cohorts for having taken what may be considered to be the appropriate channels to make their cases, who can really blame him? Gotta give him credit for one thing. At least now we all know about it and we're asking questions. Snowden might be a lot of things but, no evidence revealed to date puts him in the company of traitors. If Iran didn't know we were watching them closely, which I can't imagine they would be that slow on the uptake, even that gives me hope. Between our bumbling joke of a state department and a DOJ that thinks America is still in the Martin Luther King era, I didn't think we could keep anything a secret.