No, the fact that Snowden & co were driven by right-wing motives does not affect importance of NSA abuse revelations http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116253/edward-snowden-glenn-greenwald-julian-assange-what-they-believe …
.@DougSaunders additionally, by foiling both corp and state overreach, they're serving the best parts of both moderate ends of the spectrum
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@asteris Well, I think the leaks about NSA monitoring of US citizens had value in reforming the regulations. Beyond that, not interesting. -
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@DougSaunders well, I think leaks about NSA's boundless monitoring of foreigners are indicative of imperialism 2.0. Extremely interesting -
@asteris Yeah, but its purpose is to monitor foreigners. That's not going to be reformed. Monitoring Americans is the big scandal. -
@DougSaunders that again. It's purpose isn't to monitor all foreigners, all the time. The entire objection lies with boundless collection -
@asteris Yeah, those are bad things, but what will cause re-regulation -- as happened in '70s -- is prospect of Americans being tapped. -
@DougSaunders perhaps, but I rather doubt any serious leashing of the NSA (and other agencies) is in the offing. Few of us seem to care. -
@asteris It's a cyclical thing in US intel: regulation, crisis, laxity, excess, exposure, regulation. Repeat. We're at end of that wave now. -
@DougSaunders that can be said of all state processes. Trouble is, there are diminishing returns in actual accountability in every cycle - 1 more reply
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