Edward Snowden Quotes
Being called a Traitor by Dick Cheney, is the highest complement and American can get.
Snowden revealed to 2 major newspapers that the NSA and the American intelligence agencies were surveying all phone calls, e-mails, and web contacts. Some people like Cheney viewed his as a traitor while others saw his as a whistleblower and a hero.
Edward Snowden, NSA & CIA Employee, Whistleblower & Leaker of Classified Information, Statement, Hong Kong, June 17, 2013
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In 1901 newly elected President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House. It was the first time a Black had ever been so invited. There was a public uproar in the South. Shortly thereafter, the President and Washington were both in the audience of a Yale University event. A Supreme Court Justice took the podium. The statement brought thunders of applause.
Arguing to impeach President Thomas Jefferson:
Thereafter, Blaine was known as "The Plumed Knight." Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
This was a particularly heinous insult. In this campaign, some Republicans began claiming that President Obama was not a legitimate President because he was not born in America as the Constitution requires. Despite the fact that the State of Hawaii validated his birth certificate and the local newspapers carried announcements of his birth, many continued to make the accusation along with the parallel accusation that he was a Muslim and not a Christian despite his Church Membership all of his adult life. For many the purpose was to delegitimize Obama and they added the claim that he was anti American. So when Sununu, a major party leader said this the implication was particularly egregious. Sununu, to his credit, did apologize for the language he used and the implication thereof, but the quote is an excellent example of what has happened when campaigns get hyper-partisan. Even senior, veteran politicians get carried away and say things they regret. The 2012 was a particularly hyper-partisan campaign.
Conway was made a Major General by Congress and appointed as Inspector General of the Revolutionary Army. However, then as now, officers who told the truth about the failings of other senior officers were not well liked by the officer corps. The cover up was the norm even then. Rush ran the hospitals for the Revolutionary Army and talked to many officers and enlisted men, and also observed much of the British military practices.
The right wing hatred of President Obama hit a low point in 2012, when a very wealthy Republican zealot could make a statement like this and not get repudiated by the Republican party leaders. Rarely before in modern times had a President been accused of not acting like an American by a responsible politician or political leader. The irony is that the American voters totally repudiated Forbes, and selected Obama for President, Senator and other posts, and despite Forbes’ attacks was recognized by most people as a great American. Forbes, in contrast, one of the wealthiest men in America could not get elected to any public position thought he ran several times.
Edward Joseph Snowden is a former computer intelligence consultant who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 when he was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee and subcontractor. His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments, and prompted a cultural discussion about national security and individual privacy.
