Are U.S. citizens less less secure from a 9/11-type attack because of Snowden´s ongoing revelations?

[ehcross]

[evlbstrd]

1. You assume

that we were secure before the leaks.

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. The danger to us is the vast and bloated natinoal security state managed by priavte corporations.

Contractor that screened Snowden also vetted alleged Navy Yard shooter

Some secrecy will always be required, but secrecy has become so huge since the War on Terror began, leading to an increased demand for security clearances, that the government does not really know or control who is cleared. If a Corporation needs someone with a secret clearance, they get them.

There was a time that investigations for clearances were handled by the FBI. This is clearly no longer true.

Along with the explosion of the number of people with clearance to access information, the amount of classified information has exploded.

That is the danger. Keep it secret if it must be, but be able to trust the people who handle the information and only make secret that which must be secret.

National security should not be the slave use to cover all crimes.

[mike_c]

3. if they are, it's NOT because of Snowden's revelations...

...but rather it's because of the NSA's spy-on-everyone-all-the-time actions. No one but the spies and their allies is angry about what Snowden revealed-- they're angry at what the NSA and other U.S. agencies do.