Trump mulls pardon for leaker Edward Snowden
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Except, what has become secret in our governments has become ludicrous.
We have a right to know a majority of what is "classified" as secret.
The secrecy is almost never about the welfare of our countries. It's about protecting those within government who fucked up, scammed or deliberately participated in criminal activity.
Fuck secrecy, I want wide open transparency and accountability.
On top of that. It's always claimed we are keeping these secrets to protect from other countries knowing. I'll make bets that almost every country knows about every other countries secrets. The only people who are not in the know are the people in the general population.
Uneducated, unknowing and ignorant electorates will continue to vote the Trudeaus, the Clintons etc. in.
If Snowden only leaked the domestic spying programs, he'd have been pardoned by now. It was the foreign stuff that got him labeled as a traitor.