More To The Story?

I've been following the news about Edward Snowdon, the individual who gave interviews to British newspaper The Guardian regarding his leaking information about surveillance activities conducted by the National Security Agency. The news coverage - and the opinions - has been, for a lack of better description, all over the place. Depending on who you follow, and what you believe, he is either a hero or a traitor. And, in my opinion, there is no middle ground on this issue. Personally, I don't think there can be, either; it's pretty clear that this was not a lukewarm act. If nothing else, his actions were decisive. Some would say courageous. Others would say treacherous. That could go either way, depending on where you weigh in. I have to wonder whether there is more to this act than what has been brought out so far, and as time goes on, it wouldn't surprise me if more is made public. There has been history of the existence of surveillance that likely dates back farther than most people realize. Consider the information gathering that J. Edgar Hoover conducted when he was the director of the FBI, or the infamy Richard Nixon earned when he was President and the Watergate incident occurred; the fallout stuck with him until his death, and some of it went with him to the grave. If one considers the circumstances that led us to this point in our history - the events of September 11, 2001 - it is not a stretch to think that the policies that were implemented as part of the Patr...
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