TPM Reader FG hits on one of the points I’ve wondered about too. Should we really be so surprised that Snowden had the vast access he claims when Manning, a very junior Army intelligence analyst, had access to everything he did? Read More
Another take from TPM Reader DC …
First let me say that I greatly appreciate your thoughtful exploration of the whole NSA leak saga. Given a past history on my part of leftist kneejerkism, I am trying in this case to look more like a scientist and observer as what it all means, and what are the real facts versus the first news stories.
Apart from many of the concerns expressed by others (the need to look for terrorist threats that are indeed real, the need to prevent a high tech version of the domestic monitoring that took place in the red scare era and in the Vietnam war era) there are two things that stand out to me as big issues.
