NY Times Call on Obama to Offer Snowden a Deal
Seems relevant.
So what do you think?
Was the NSA was running rogue operations such as taping the personal cell phones of Angela Merkel and Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff? Programs that have created and will continue to create significant blow back for American companies such as Boeing and Cisco.
Is it a problem when the US Director of National Intelligence lies to congress?
Or is the problem that Snowden, not the NSA, has damaged National Security?
Though, I do agree with Angela Merkel that the US Intelligence Agencies can't be trusted. As she stated, if they got cleaned out by an amateur like Snowden, why should Germany share any of their intelligence with the US? Clearly, that part of the damage is real.
In a phone call with Obama, Merkel compared the NSA with the Stasi. One thing unsaid was that, unlike the NSA, the secrets gathered by the Stasi remained secret.
Uno