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Hypocrisy Overload: Dick Cheney Calls Edward Snowden a Traitor
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Dick Cheney helped mislead the country into invading Iraq and has been convicted of war crimes, but he thinks Edward Snowden is a traitor.
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Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace asked former VP Cheney what he thought of Edward Snowden. Cheney said, “I think he is a traitor. I think he has committed crimes that violate agreements given the position he had. He was contractor employed, but obviously granted top secret clearance, and this is one of the worst occasions in my memory of someone with access to top secret information doing enormous damage to the national security of the United States.”
Wallace and Cheney then speculated on whether or not Snowden was spying for the Chinese. Cheney did say that he was deeply suspicious that Snowden was a spy, “because he went to China. It’s not ordinarily a place you want to go if you’re interested in freedom, liberty, and so forth.”
What the former vice president left out of the conversation was that Snowden would have never had access to classified information without the explosion of the private contractor intelligence industry after the Patriot Act was passed. Without the Patriot Act, Edward Snowden may not have been in position to access classified information.
Cheney was part of an administration that fabricated intelligence in order to mislead the country into invading Iraq, so I don’t think he has any room to be tossing the traitor word around.
The former vice president’s capacity for hypocrisy is astounding. Ultimately Edward Snowden is responsible for his own actions, but the policies of Bush/Cheney administration opened the door for this to happen.
The word traitor is being thrown around almost as often as the term whistle blower, but I am not comfortable with either description. The facts are that Snowden is a leaker, who definitely committed crimes. If Edward Snowden did pass intelligence to the Chinese, he is a traitor and a spy. (Interestingly, if Snowden did or does pass information to the Chinese, what does that make Glenn Greenwald?)
Snowden’s decision to flee to Chinese controlled Hong Kong was an odd one, but it could also be the byproduct of being a high school dropout who may not be that smart.
The former vice president is in no position to call anybody a traitor, but if anyone knows treasonous behavior it is certainly Dick Cheney.
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Shiva
Jun. 16th, 2013 at 11:33 am
Cheney should be in prison for mass murder. Conservatives jump and scream when you mention that Bush/Cheney killed over 100,000 Iraqis, saying the extremists did it, but who opened the door once again? Cheney. Mass murderer
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Charlie F
Jun. 16th, 2013 at 11:58 am
Cheney has no credibility on anything.
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Older_Wiser
Jun. 16th, 2013 at 12:00 pm
This really is one of those “I know what you are, but what am I” situations.
You are spot on about contracting out services that should remain as straight civil service jobs (esp those “top secret” ones) because I rather doubt those private companies do very much vetting and not only dish out the bullshit, but can be fooled by it, too. Contractors have no loyalty to anything, many times, except their paycheck. And those paychecks tend to be much larger than govt jobs–why? Because contractors are simply overpaid when they’re on the govt tit.
Cheney should be in an orange jumpsuit along with others.
And it’s amazing that, as someone who thinks he’s the smartest guy on the planet, Glennzilla could be pwned like he was by a HS dropout.
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Churchlady320
Jun. 16th, 2013 at 12:07 pm
Since GG apparently was in touch with Snowden BEFORE Snowden was hired at Booz Allen, then I would have to doubt GG was snookered at all. It looks as if he set Snowden on the course that was taken, so…
Cheney is despicable and a hypocrite, but yes, if anyone knows duplicity and criminality, he’d be the one.
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Reynardine
Jun. 16th, 2013 at 12:04 pm
Snowden is potentially chargeable with several serious federal felonies, but not with treason, because we are not at war, in law or in fact, with either the Russians or the Chinese, nor is he himself leading, participating in, or aiding any kind of insurrection against us. Cheney, now…the timing of 9/11 was just damned convenient, wasn’t it?
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Sugapea
Jun. 16th, 2013 at 3:02 pm
From 9/11 to PRISMGATE – How the Carlyle Group LBO’d the World’s Secrets:
http://inagist.com/all/344417555651366914/
Cheney is pure evil!
Suppressed Details of Criminal Insider Trading Lead Directly into the CIA’s Highest Ranks
http://www.hereinreality.com/insidertrading.html#.Ub4LSeuiH4h
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Sarahthequitter
Jun. 16th, 2013 at 12:30 pm
Traitor…outing of an undercover CIA agent working to feed Iran false nuclear information…sound fimiliar?
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JustADumbFireman
Jun. 16th, 2013 at 12:50 pm
I’m glad somebody remembers that.
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robyn ryan
Jun. 16th, 2013 at 12:31 pm
He’s a contractor. He works for money, like Lockheed, Halliburton and Blackwater.
At best, he might be sued for breach of contract.
He has acted in the best tradition of the Civil Servant. He saw wrong and told the citizens. Because his loyalties are to his fellow Americans and the Constitution, not his employer.
The Justice branch has absorbed Congress’ role of law writing and regulation. Unfortunately, their default is law enforcement, not equity and freedom. Add 9/11 and you have a police state.
BTB – Isn’t it a bit creepy to have our military wandering the country dressed in their invasion costumes?
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JustADumbFireman
Jun. 16th, 2013 at 12:51 pm
Cheney, who engineered the outing of a CIA agent, among many other sleazy things, needs to be put in Guantanamo for the rest of his worthless life. AFTER being waterboarded.
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TYBANDIT
Jun. 16th, 2013 at 1:15 pm
Leave it to Fox to once again drag Cheney’s half dead ass into the spotlight. Who gives a hoot what he has to say about ANYTHING!
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MrsGunka
Jun. 16th, 2013 at 2:24 pm
Cheney is the pot calling the kettle black!
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gsb
Jun. 16th, 2013 at 6:58 pm
The trouble with Cheney is, he believes he, is the hero in the white hat. Perhaps he is color blind, Not knowing the difference in color? His is really very black. Yes, he does belong in an orange suit, he will escape, just as a few others who have been guilty of wrongs against the Constitution have.
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SickupandFed
Jun. 16th, 2013 at 8:42 pm
There is a difference.
Snowden may very well be a traitor. Cheney, otoh IS a war criminal.
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Vince
Jun. 17th, 2013 at 7:26 am
You people make me laugh. At what point is Obama responsible for what goes on? Last I checked, reversing all of this was one of the big campaign promises and yet… he not only renewed but expanded it.
The funny thing is that when people like Diane Feinstein accuse Mr Snowden of treason it makes me think that liberals like her see informing the people that their rights are being violated as an act of war, and the American people as the enemy.
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djchefron
Jun. 17th, 2013 at 7:41 am
What part of being a traitor you dont understand
Edward Snowden: Classified US data shows Hong Kong hacking targets
Top-secret US government records shown to Post by whistle-blower give details of computer IP addresses hacked by NSA in HK and mainland
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1260306/edward-snowden-classified-us-data-shows-hong-kong-hacking-targets
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Shoes
Jun. 17th, 2013 at 8:28 am
Jason,
I read that E Snowden is a ‘high school drop out that … May not be that smart.’ What does it say of our ‘intelligence’ community if this type of person has access to such sensitive data. And, in my opinion, he fears for his safty, and that’s the reason he fled to Hong Kong. I think that E Snowden isn’t as dumb as folks are quickly painting him to be.
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djchefron
Jun. 17th, 2013 at 8:40 am
Speaking for myself I am not saying he is dumb as it pertain to intelligence.I am saying he is dumb for going to communist china with classified data and expecting not to be treated as a traitor.
Now instead of the debate being on civil liberties the debate is now on glenzilla and his shoddy reporting because what he says the US is doing is slowly turning out not to be true and on Snowden for giving the Chinese classified data on what we are doing in combating the cyber threat that is coming from China
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Adam
Jun. 17th, 2013 at 10:18 am
Don’t be an idiot. Not all high school dropouts are dumb. Assuming they are makes you sound stupid.
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Shiva
Jun. 17th, 2013 at 10:32 am
assuming someone is an idiot makes you sound stupid. See how that works?
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jonny
Jun. 17th, 2013 at 10:33 am
Hey folks, Honk Kong can’t extradite people for a few years because their system for that is up in limbo till new laws get written, Actually very well played and very smart. Do you think we should allow secret spying information on your phone calls? Do you trust the government not to abuse this power?
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Shiva
Jun. 17th, 2013 at 10:41 am
the government started listening in on your phone calls as soon as the first Telstar satellite Went up in the 60s.at that time they were using computers to listen for keywords that might involve threats against the president or against the country.
While I do not approve of them listening in on our phone calls, I’m not quite sure how they could be used against us in a normal situation. Given the fact that there are millions and millions of calls made daily, most by women who chatter on incessantly about nothing( yes I think I’m going to be crushed) I seriously doubt if they take the time to listen in on anyone except those who are seriously suspect Of something.
I do foresee a time when all calls will be available to be listened to if required. I also think that if we use such tools as the Internet and cell phones that we really do not have the right or expectation of privacy( which I think is wrong)
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djchefron
Jun. 17th, 2013 at 10:52 am
That may be true but dont think for one second if China wants him gone for any reason he would be on the next plane smoking.Now I know you are believing what greenwald wrote but it’s not true that the government is listening on your conversations.Do they have the capability? Yes but that is nothing new I refer you to Echelon. Furthermore read what the carriers of data had to say about Snowdens and greenwalds fantasies
Micrsoft:http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/06/14/microsoft-s-u-s-law-enforcement-and-national-security-requests-for-last-half-of-2012.aspx
Facebook:http://newsroom.fb.com/News/636/Facebook-Releases-Data-Including-All-National-Security-Requests
A few thousand (including local, state, and federal, and including criminal and national security-related requests) out of billions of accounts?Come on man
CHECK THIS OUT:Glenn Greenwald’s ‘Epic Botch’?http://www.thenation.com/blog/174783/glenn-greenwalds-epic-botch#axzz2W891Bf00
And if you think the Nation is an Obama lapdog well….
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KIKO
Jun. 17th, 2013 at 11:31 am
F@#$ Channey lying sack of sh@#
murdering bastard
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Kmom4kids
Jun. 17th, 2013 at 12:05 pm
Boy Dick sure has a lot of gaul making that statement! He and Bush should be in some prison serving sentences for ALL the Treason they committed against the U.S. Allowing them freedom to walk around is the biggest travesty the U.S. has done. Too many lives have been lost or forever changed because of their “cherry picked” information. May they never have peace in their souls. They better pack their Cabana Wear when they die.
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