Snowden has done almost irreparable harm to this nation's safety and security...he is a stone-cold 100% TRAITOR who is guilty of TREASON.
Consider this, for example:
On November 16, 2006 we learned that China has installed a ground station for intercepting signals transmitted through the U.S. and Russian communication satellite systems. The Chinese government spent $big bucks$ (billions) for this ground station in order to decode our previously encrypted (protected) data.
There are more than 1200 satellites in orbit from the European Space Agency and the following nations: United States, France, Japan, China, United Kingdom, India, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and South Korea, and each one of these satellites is capable of eavesdropping on anyone anytime anywhere. But unauthorized listening-in by other nations is possible because the military and civilian systems radiate signals in all directions and these signals can be picked up by any ground station over nearly one-third of the Earth's surface from which the satellite can be seen.
Prior to Snowden's TREASON, the U.S. had countermeasures set up to block or otherwise follow and foil cyber-spying---the very countermeasures that Snowden took it upon his undereducated arrogant criminal self to spew to the world. He deserves the death penalty, especially because he betrayed his country and obliterated its intervention strategies during a time when the nation is AT WAR on foreign soil.
If a professional football coach gave away all team defense and offense strategies to the opposing teams, would that coach's team ever be able to win?
The databank of phone numbers and e-mail accounts is NOT "spying"---it is simply organizing available data that makes use of the public airwaves. The sheer volume of data would maintain anonymity, but this is nothing new. The FBI has always (in my 68 years) been able to "red flag" phone numbers if callers used triggering "buzz" words like "bomb" or "assassination" and these red-flagged numbers would then be channeled into a smaller databank for closer scrutiny. The electronic signals is what is sought---not the private conversations.
Snowden has done almost irreparable harm to this nation's safety and security...he is a stone-cold 100% TRAITOR who is guilty of TREASON.
Consider this, for example:
On November 16, 2006 we learned that China has installed a ground station for intercepting signals transmitted through the U.S. and Russian communication satellite systems. The Chinese government spent $big bucks$ (billions) for this ground station in order to decode our previously encrypted (protected) data.
There are more than 1200 satellites in orbit from the European Space Agency and the following nations: United States, France, Japan, China, United Kingdom, India, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and South Korea, and each one of these satellites is capable of eavesdropping on anyone anytime anywhere. But unauthorized listening-in by other nations is possible because the military and civilian systems radiate signals in all directions and these signals can be picked up by any ground station over nearly one-third of the Earth's surface from which the satellite can be seen.
Prior to Snowden's TREASON, the U.S. had countermeasures set up to block or otherwise follow and foil cyber-spying---the very countermeasures that Snowden took it upon his undereducated arrogant criminal self to spew to the world. He deserves the death penalty, especially because he betrayed his country and obliterated its intervention strategies during a time when the nation is AT WAR on foreign soil.
If a professional football coach gave away all team defense and offense strategies to the opposing teams, would that coach's team ever be able to win?
The databank of phone numbers and e-mail accounts is NOT "spying"---it is simply organizing available data that makes use of the public airwaves. The sheer volume of data would maintain anonymity, but this is nothing new. The FBI has always (in my 68 years) been able to "red flag" phone numbers if callers used triggering "buzz" words like "bomb" or "assassination" and these red-flagged numbers would then be channeled into a smaller databank for closer scrutiny. The electronic signals is what is sought---not the private conversations.
