My girlfriend and I have been arguing about this for the past week, and it is because she fails to understand one thing, neither of these two people betrayed the United States of America.
They are being called traitors because they betrayed the United States government, by informing the citizens of the United States about the things that the government was hiding from the citizens. The AP claimed that the U.S. military killed their reporters, the government denied it, and Bradley Manning proved the AP right. Various citizens and civil rights groups have filed lawsuits to stop the warrantless surveillance that had been established to have been started under the Bush administration, and continued under Obama, only to have the their cases dismissed because they could not prove that they were illegally targeted. Now they can prove it, thanks to Edward Snowden.
My question to you is: who is a greater threat to the United States, Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, for informing the citizens of what the government is hiding from us, or Grover Norquist, whose stated goal is "to make government so small that can drown in a thimble full of water"?
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