| > "High-school diploma"? WTF? Have the courage to say what you mean or cut the cheap shots. As someone with only a high-school diploma myself, I do not like others with only a high-school diploma, who blow the chances they've been given. Should Snowden only have been glad someone took a chance on him and shut up? No. He did a brave thing. Will it be harder in the future for someone with only a high-school diploma to get admin access at the NSA, as a result of Snowden's actions? Yes. NSA will start focussing on Ivy League students and family members of NSA employees. > So you don't like Greenwald. That's lovely. Now please describe how the romantic connection indicates incompetence, and what exactly the bad result that said incompetence lead to. I think Greenwald is an ok journalist. I think it is grave incompetence to use your romantic interest as a document mule. Journalists may be able to handle sensitive documents. The partners of those journalists... not so much. They are basically civilians. The bad result is that his partner was caught by customs and detained. A bad result may have been that other agencies got to his partner before the UK did. Everyone around Greenwald became a target the moment he was in possession of the cache. That he actually gave the documents to his partner, shows that he was a valid target at that. Do you honestly think Snowden thought it was a good idea that Greenwald let his partner handle these documents? |