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I don't really blame President Rousseff for being angry. Spying on another government or even a private company is tantamount to espionage.
Heya Moot.She was pist. Then immediately cancelled the trip to the US. Truly I don't like seeing what going on in our backyard so to speak. Things like this push more of them towards the Likes of Russia with even more influence then what they have already.
Plus now they are starting to talk Balkanization.
Hi MMC.
Unfortunately, Russia is starting to look like the only adult in the room. eek.
The US and Brazil have some trade issues and most of it seems to stem from tariffs and the subdizing of US farmers and energy markets ...which is a violation of the NAFTA agreement. So Brazil protested to the WTO and instead of stopping the subsidies like say, for cotton farmers...the US negotiated to subsidize Brazil's cotton farmers, too. Is that crazy or what?
Anyway, the point is Brazil has a lot of reasons to be mad at the US and this spying thing doesn't help.
If Obama was smart, he would pardon Snowden, admit we did the wrong thing and stop doing it. Just like that. The world could breathe a sigh of relief and we could respect Obama for manning up instead of continuing the game of sneaky pete and the weekly revelations.
If Obama was smart, he would pardon Snowden, admit we did the wrong thing and stop doing it. Just like that. The world could breathe a sigh of relief and we could respect Obama for manning up instead of continuing the game of sneaky pete and the weekly revelations.
Heya SB :2wave: I would disagree. Pardon Snowden? Snowden is a traitor to the US.....he even admitted he doesn't understand all that he took. Placing the US National Security that has the possibility to even affect our Physical Security. Is an act that cannot be tolerated.
Obama needs to do the Right thing. That would be making sure Snowden was either tried and shot. Or he needs to Crack the Whip!
Heya SB :2wave: I would disagree. Pardon Snowden? Snowden is a traitor to the US.....he even admitted he doesn't understand all that he took. Placing the US National Security that has the possibility to even affect our Physical Security. Is an act that cannot be tolerated.
Obama needs to do the Right thing. That would be making sure Snowden was either tried and shot. Or he needs to Crack the Whip!
i don't think its that simple for the governmnet to stop doing what the nsa does.
besides i think snowden should have just released everything he had at once, not hold on to anything for future release. it would lessen the suspicion that he is giving information away to foreign countries.
in my oppinion snowden's actions are more like that of klaus fuchs.
Heya SB :2wave: I would disagree. Pardon Snowden? Snowden is a traitor to the US.....he even admitted he doesn't understand all that he took. Placing the US National Security that has the possibility to even affect our Physical Security. Is an act that cannot be tolerated.
Obama needs to do the Right thing. That would be making sure Snowden was either tried and shot. Or he needs to Crack the Whip!
Seems a bit harsh to do to an American citizen what the US wouldn't do to foreign spys caught spying on the US government. Some of the spys caught worked for the Israelis and none of them got the death penalty. Some only had to pay a fine.
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