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Trump: 'A lot of people' think Edward Snowden 'not being treated fairly'

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Re: Trump: 'A lot of people' think Edward Snowden 'not being treated fairly'

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>In a 2013 tweet, Trump wrote: “Snowden is a spy who should be executed-but if it and he could reveal Obama’s records, I might become a major fan.” good god, that's one of the most Trumpish Trump tweets ever.

source?

Re: Trump: 'A lot of people' think Edward Snowden 'not being treated fairly'

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post #2

>In a 2013 tweet, Trump wrote: “Snowden is a spy who should be executed-but if it and he could reveal Obama’s records, I might become a major fan.” good god, that's one of the most Trumpish Trump tweets ever.

source?

It's the final line in the article

Re: Trump: 'A lot of people' think Edward Snowden 'not being treated fairly'

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post #2

>In a 2013 tweet, Trump wrote: “Snowden is a spy who should be executed-but if it and he could reveal Obama’s records, I might become a major fan.” good god, that's one of the most Trumpish Trump tweets ever.

source?

The article, which links to the tweet.

Anyway: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/39568370275766272...

Re: Trump: 'A lot of people' think Edward Snowden 'not being treated fairly'

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Well, he's right. Maybe this is Snowden's chance, I wonder if he'll file another plea for immunity. Clearly Trump's election strategy should be to paint the Democrats as pawns of the deep state whereas he is not, and freeing Snowden would play well with that narrative.

Re: Trump: 'A lot of people' think Edward Snowden 'not being treated fairly'

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post #2

>In a 2013 tweet, Trump wrote: “Snowden is a spy who should be executed-but if it and he could reveal Obama’s records, I might become a major fan.” good god, that's one of the most Trumpish Trump tweets ever.

source?

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/39568370275766272...

Re: Trump: 'A lot of people' think Edward Snowden 'not being treated fairly'

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Intelligence services used to be unassailable. They did the dirty work for the country (and admittedly it’s a necessary thing in an unfair world), but a couple of major problems are: they are often wrong in very bad ways: Russian missile crisis, power of the late USSR where Reagan has to seek advice from DoD instead, gulf war II and then the internal and political spying (remember they were caught spying on congress?)
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