A total traitor. I would give him the death sentence, if I could. Why, you ask? Because he simply made it easier for another 9-11 to happen. He's made it harder to catch Jihadists before they kill.
By the way, they're collecting metadata, not the contents of your calls.
This is 2013, not 1776. I'm betting that the Framers wouldn't have any problem with this.
If there's another 9-11, how many will say, "You know, we didn't do all we could, did we?"
I think we should do all we can. This includes supporting programs like this.
Snowden should be caught and tried for treason.
Considering, that my family in Europe was exterminated by the Nazis using similar tactics to what the USA government is doing with the ILLEGAL secret monitoring and intelligence acquisition operations , I will commend Edward Snowden as a great hero!!
Forget 9/11, let's try a Shoa Chadash (New Holocaust)! When a government using unconstitutional means to empower itself at the expense of its citizens in the name of "National Security", what you end up with is a Fascist state led by terrorists. 9/11 will be absolutely nothing to talk about in comparison to having a country ruled by an evil dictatorship that has complete control over the populace. There is a reason why our Founding Fathers in the USA created a Constitution, it was to protect us from this very evil! Modern technology and digital information technology has only given corrupt governments, like the one led by Barack Hussein a footstool in acquiring more power and control over an ignorant population of sheeple, then ever was possible in the past. Essentially, by us digitizing and transporting all our thoughts over text, voice and video over the web, the government now has access to everything we ever said or thought and can utilize it against us.
I am a software developer and I do know the potential the government has at acquiring information. I understand Snowden's fears, as I in my own profession live with them every day. The means for the government to compress, archive, encrypt and store data becomes easier and easier every year. Nanotechnology means almost infinite amount of digital data can be archived in secret government databases. Thankfully, we had a whistleblower who decided not to comply with unscrupulous, unconstitutional and heinous activities carried out by our evil government.
I support Edward Snowden, a 1000% .. We The People, not We The Government.
If the government spying on US citizens and gaining more and more information from people is suppose to protect us from a few 3rd world jihadis, who will protect us when the government decides its time to broaden their spectrum of who is a terrorist and who is not? Let's start with JTF and JDL groups. We have a set of laws that guarantee the rights of our citizens from the government. The government was circumventing the laws to empower itself and using terrorism and National Security as excuse. It is the government, in fact, not Edward Snowden, who is responsible for putting Americans at risk for terrorist attacks, since they abused the powers which were to be used to protect the American public from such dangers. Now, we have more to fear from our government then we do from any terrorist. Governments have always proven themselves to be the worst terrorists throughout history.
Did anyone mention they failed to protect us from the Boston Bombing?? Despite, the fact Russian Intelligence a while back even warned America these men posed a significant threat!