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White House: Damage From Snowden Leaks Will Take Decades To Subside

March 28, 2014 by Personal Liberty News Desk 

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Michael Daniel, the special assistant to the President for cyber security, told an assembly of soon-to-be Naval officers today that it will take many years – decades, in fact – to undo the National Security damage done by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who allegedly  absconded with and leaked a trove of sensitive data.

“Make no mistake: We are going to be dealing with the fallout from that for all of your careers, and the impact that that has had on our national security will reverberate for decades,” said Daniel in an Annapolis, Md. Speech today. “…I think it would be very valuable for us to actually understand in much greater detail everything that was taken.”

Snowden’s public characterization will be a polarizing debate for as long as his actions hold a place in the Nation’s memory. Some will always believe his revelations of the extent of the government’s domestic spying apparatus represent the desperately heroic actions of a patriot. Others believe he crippled America’s ability to conceal from enemy states its various powers of surveillance, and imperiled the safety of American soldier and civilians alike.

Daniel is clearly in the latter group. And insofar as Snowden may have harmed our Nation’s power to defend itself from threats of terror and higher-level sabotage, he’s right.

But if he’s merely lamenting the damage Snowden did to the NSA’s ability to get away with government-sanctioned 4^th Amendment violations on a massive scale; or the state’s unConstitutional use of a secret, para-judicial “court” that rubber-stamps law enforcement’s capricious requests for spying on the mundane online activities of law-abiding citizens, then “decades” of damage isn’t long enough.