While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Eric H. Holder, Jr., former attorney general of the U.s., says in a podcast interview with David Axelrod that
We can certainly argue about the way in which [whistleblower Eric] Snowden did what he did, but I think that he actually performed a public service by raising the debate we engaged in and by the changes that we made. Now, I would say doing what he did in the way he did it was inappropriate and illegal.
Question: What is it? Is Snowden a hero or criminal?
[added 1/4/2023] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.
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References:
Holder: Snowden did ‘public service,’ but should still be punished | Fox News.htm
www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/31/holder-snowden-did-public-service-but-should-still-be-punished.html