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I am sorry but Obama does not mention any of that. He argues that intelligence is needed and that there is nothing you can do about it.

Anyways, I wonder why he still keeps with the story that Mr. Snowden should have contacted his superiors first before going public. We all know what would have happened in that case (i.e nothing); why does he answer like we are stupid?

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Yes but then he left to Russia and promptly gave them all the intelligence he'd collected. Most had nothing to do with what he'd whistle blew on. If you dump everything you can gather and give it to another nation you're going to have a hard time getting a pardon.

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Snowden never intended to go to Russia (it's the fault of the US that that happened). And as far as I know there's no proof that he revealed anything to the Russian government. In fact, he claims to no longer have the documents (he deleted them after giving them to journalists).

Source? By all accounts, at the time, he didn't have the data at that point.

I hope you can do better than "He is a liar!", because given what he did and why he did it - the benefit of the doubt is deserved.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/world/snowden-says-he-took...

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