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The United States Government is livid with a man named Edward Snowden for leaking a sensitive NSA espionage program named Prism that allows the security agency to invade the privacy of millions of American citizens.
Snowden, who revealed the top secret plan while in Hong Kong, was once employed as a CIA technical assistant before he was hired by a company named Booz Allen Hamilton. It was during his tenure at the CIA where Snowden claims he discovered the NSA's elaborate spy program that allows the agency to intrude into the lives of practically anyone it chooses.
How invasive is the NSA's espionage program? Snowden said this: "The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards."
Obviously, government officials aren't happy with Snowden and they plan to hunt him down and bring him back to the U.S. to charge him with leaking a top secret government "national security" program. Meanwhile, Snowden is on the run and he hopes to land in a country that will offer him asylum from the long arm of U.S. justice.
When he was asked to explain the existence of the NSA's elaborate espionage program, President Barack Obama naturally deflected it toward his predecessor George W. Bush who launched the program during his administration.
But if Obama was truly troubled by the NSA program as he made claim during his tenure as a U.S. senator, then why did he continue it after he gained the White House in 2009? He could've terminated it but he chose not to. Obama now claims that the program is necessary to protect the U.S. against terrorist attacks. And that seems odd considering that Obama recently declared that the war on terror had ended.
However, Obama's war against conservatives, evangelical Christians and the Tea Party isn't over. And that may explain why the NSA's espionage program lives on to continue invading the privacy of millions of people.
And consider this: What goes around comes around. If the Obama Administration feels betrayed by Snowden, then consider how Israel feels. The Jewish nation was recently betrayed by the Obama Administration after it leaked a top secret plan by Israel to build a military installation that would house an elaborate ballistic-missile defense system designed to protect Israel from a nuclear attack.
From mcclatcheydc.com: Israel’s military fumed Monday (June 3) over the discovery that the U.S. government had revealed details of a top-secret Israeli military installation in published bid requests..."If an enemy of Israel wanted to launch an attack against a facility, this would give him an easy how-to guide. This type of information is closely guarded and its release can jeopardize the entire facility," said an Israeli military official who commented on the publication of the proposal but declined to be named because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the facility. He declined to say whether plans for the facility have been altered as a result of the disclosure.
And that wasn't the first time the Obama Administration leaked sensitive Israeli military secrets. Last year, Israel strongly suspected the administration of leaking its plans for a military strike against Iran. The leak informed the world that Israel had been granted access to airbases in Azerbaijan for a planned air strike against the Islamic nation.
And so, what goes around comes around. Is Edward Snowden's leak against the Obama Administration poetic justice for the administration's leaks of Israeli military secrets? You decide.
Israel faces a real existential threat from Iran. To leak that nation's top secret military plans is to imperil millions of innocent lives. That's worse than betrayal--that's sacrilege. And that's a sin against God Himself.
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