This article has two of the many specific reasons why Snowden isn't a hero and must go to jail:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...clemency_the_nsa_leaker_hasn_t_proved_he.html
"But Snowden did much more than that. The documents that he gave the Washington Post’s Barton Gellman and the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald have, so far, furnished stories about the NSA’s interception of email traffic, mobile phone calls, and radio transmissions of Taliban fighters in Pakistan’s northwest territories; about an operation to gauge the loyalties of CIA recruits in Pakistan; about NSA email intercepts to assist intelligence assessments of what’s going on inside Iran; about NSA surveillance of cellphone calls “worldwide,” an effort that (in the Post’s words) “allows it to look for unknown associates of known intelligence targets by tracking people whose movements intersect.” In his first interview with the South China Morning Post, Snowden revealed that the NSA routinely hacks into hundreds of computers in China and Hong Kong."
This directly put lives of American GIs at risk.It also allowed our enemy the ability to change how they communicated. This made our efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan more difficult.
His intentional actions aided the enemy. There is no way around this fact.
"Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel of Reuters later reported, in an eye-opening scoop, that Snowden gained access to his cache of documents by persuading 20 to 25 of his fellow employees to give him their logins and passwords, saying he needed the information to help him do his job as systems administrator. (Most of these former colleagues were subsequently fired.)"
"He gets himself placed at the NSA’s signals intelligence center in Hawaii for the sole purpose of pilfering extremely classified documents."
He ruined these people's lives to help himself. Heroes don't do that. Criminals do.
This was premeditated and just to show what happened in the US was wrong.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...clemency_the_nsa_leaker_hasn_t_proved_he.html
"But Snowden did much more than that. The documents that he gave the Washington Post’s Barton Gellman and the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald have, so far, furnished stories about the NSA’s interception of email traffic, mobile phone calls, and radio transmissions of Taliban fighters in Pakistan’s northwest territories; about an operation to gauge the loyalties of CIA recruits in Pakistan; about NSA email intercepts to assist intelligence assessments of what’s going on inside Iran; about NSA surveillance of cellphone calls “worldwide,” an effort that (in the Post’s words) “allows it to look for unknown associates of known intelligence targets by tracking people whose movements intersect.” In his first interview with the South China Morning Post, Snowden revealed that the NSA routinely hacks into hundreds of computers in China and Hong Kong."
This directly put lives of American GIs at risk.It also allowed our enemy the ability to change how they communicated. This made our efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan more difficult.
His intentional actions aided the enemy. There is no way around this fact.
"Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel of Reuters later reported, in an eye-opening scoop, that Snowden gained access to his cache of documents by persuading 20 to 25 of his fellow employees to give him their logins and passwords, saying he needed the information to help him do his job as systems administrator. (Most of these former colleagues were subsequently fired.)"
"He gets himself placed at the NSA’s signals intelligence center in Hawaii for the sole purpose of pilfering extremely classified documents."
He ruined these people's lives to help himself. Heroes don't do that. Criminals do.
This was premeditated and just to show what happened in the US was wrong.
