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In reply to the discussion: Who's more honest: Snowden/Greenwald or the federal government? [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)34. I can see where GG and JA make money
But how is ES profiting here? Seems to me he was making phat stacks of cash and living large while he worked for the NSA, and gave that up for crappy hotel rooms and bad food and being stuck in a backwards country.
And given the government history of misusing intelligence to spy on minorities and civil rights groups, I'm rather surprised you trust the government - they've got a many decades long history of bad behaviour, and nothing really to suggest they've ever cleaned up their act.
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Who's more honest: Snowden/Greenwald or the federal government? [View all]
MannyGoldstein
Jun 2014
OP
the "federal government" is too big an entity for me to consider the comparison
grasswire
Jun 2014
#1
Does Greenwald being a "Zombie Vampire Libertarian" mean he can't be telling the truth?
Ken Burch
Jun 2014
#19
Hmm, nadin voted in your poll, despite having her 5th strike hours before you posted it.
Electric Monk
Jun 2014
#30
The cream always rises to the top - that is why the smartest and most trustworthy people
Douglas Carpenter
Jun 2014
#39