Wednesday, December 16, 2020

John Stossel: Leaker Edward Snowden: Traitor or Hero?

John Stossel disappointed and failed tremendously! This was a glorifying softball interview with Snowden. 

Traitor Edward Snowden dumped tons of classified documents that went far beyond those that showed spying on U.S. citizens by U.S. government agencies. Had Snowden only disclosed documents regarding the this spying on U.S. citizens to reveal that high ranking members of the U.S. government lied about this to the U.S. Congress, he would have been considered a whistleblower. However, Stossel failed to ask relevant questions.

"The exact size of Snowden's disclosure is unknown,[105] but Australian officials have estimated 15,000 or more Australian intelligence files[106] and British officials estimate at least 58,000 British intelligence files were included.[107] NSA Director Keith Alexander initially estimated that Snowden had copied anywhere from 50,000 to 200,000 NSA documents.[108] Later estimates provided by U.S. officials were in the order of 1.7 million,[109] a number that originally came from Department of Defense talking points.[110] In July 2014, The Washington Post reported on a cache previously provided by Snowden from domestic NSA operations consisting of "roughly 160,000 intercepted e-mail and instant-message conversations, some of them hundreds of pages long, and 7,900 documents taken from more than 11,000 online accounts."[111] A U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency report declassified in June 2015 said that Snowden took 900,000 Department of Defense files, more than he downloaded from the NSA.[110]"

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