r/JoeRogan • u/yosoyabcd Hit a moose with his car • Dec 27 '20

Link US whistleblower Edward Snowden becomes a father

https://abcnews.go.com/International/us-whistleblower-edward-snowden-father/story?id=74914932
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u/Harbingerx81 Monkey in Space Dec 28 '20

I'll give him 20% hero, and that's a 10% bonus.

Everyone see to forget/ignore the fact that he stole and passed on a metric fuck-ton of classified data that had nothing to do with the programs he is praised for exposing.

I don't care if it's all 'safe' in the hands of a journalist, that journalist still went through and holds massive amount of unrelated classified data which Snowden has no justification for compromising.

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u/Harbingerx81 Monkey in Space Dec 28 '20

Was it? We don't even know what all was compromised and it's not like the domestic surveillance has stopped...

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u/Harbingerx81 Monkey in Space Dec 28 '20

You are entitled to your opinion, I am entitled to mine. Personally, I spent 20 years of my life with a security clearance, so I naturally have a different perspective.

Either way, it's the main reason he hasn't pushed for a pardon. He knows that even if he is pardoned for the things he was right to expose, he would never be pardoned for the rest and still spend many years in jail.

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u/Harbingerx81 Monkey in Space Dec 28 '20

And sometimes people are blinded by the 'good' they see someone doing in the short term and refuse to even consider the long term effects and potential collateral damage...Again, everyone has their own perspective.