12-12-2013, 11:42 PM
The most significant security leak in US history and one that may hopefully save us from further erosion of constitutional rights to privacy and against illegal search and seizure, and put some power back with the people and away from the out of control executive branch and the intelligence services it controls.
Pre-Snowden people had no idea what the reaches of the NSA and other agencies were. We knew about the Patriot Act but that's like Captain Kangaroo compared with what was actually going on.
Snowden will probably never be able to set foot in the US again but he decided it was worth the cost to expose this truth to the American people, and I for one am very glad that he did.
I'd be interested to know who at TIME thought Francis was more significant, and why, or whether they didn't want the political pressure price that choosing Snowden would bring.
Not something that matters to a whole lot of people, but at the same time, an interesting choice by some pretty high profile media people.
Pre-Snowden people had no idea what the reaches of the NSA and other agencies were. We knew about the Patriot Act but that's like Captain Kangaroo compared with what was actually going on.
Snowden will probably never be able to set foot in the US again but he decided it was worth the cost to expose this truth to the American people, and I for one am very glad that he did.
I'd be interested to know who at TIME thought Francis was more significant, and why, or whether they didn't want the political pressure price that choosing Snowden would bring.
Not something that matters to a whole lot of people, but at the same time, an interesting choice by some pretty high profile media people.