60 Minutes: Snowden Amnesty Deal? Comparison to Hostage-Taking Murderer, and 1.7 Million Documents!

General Alexander is a  believer in  Holding  People  accountable  for their  actions.

One  wonders if  his  views also  extend  to  an  overreaching  and  overbearing  government that  abuses and  circumvents the rule of  law whenever  it  is convenient?

I would venture to  say  the  answer to that  would  be  "No"

If we are  going to  use  the analogy of  hostages  then  exactly  what  is it General Alexander  considers what  the Patriot Act, NDAA and  Prism have  done to the  American People , not to  mention  the  Constitution of  the  US?

~Desert Rose~

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NSA Considers Edward Snowden Amnesty Deal

A senior NSA official says it is "worth having a conversation" about a deal to prevent further leaks by the fugitive analyst.

1:00pm UK, Monday 16 December 2013

The US National Security Agency is considering offering an amnesty to Edward Snowden if he agrees to stop leaking top secret documents, a top agency official has said.

The fugitive intelligence analyst - currently in Moscow - has been charged with espionage by US authorities for divulging reams of secret files, which have been published by news organisations across the globe.
Mr Snowden has insisted he spilled the secrets to expose the NSA's far-reaching surveillance and spark public debate.
Rick Ledgett, who heads the NSA taskforce in charge of assessing the Snowden leaks, told CBS News' 60 Minutes that he would be open to the possibility of a deal.
He said: "My personal view is, yes, it's worth having a conversation about."

Mr Snowden is thought to have access to around 1.5 million NSA files

But NSA chief General Keith Alexander has rejected the possibility of an amnesty.
He told the programme: "This is analogous to a hostage-taker taking 50 people hostage, shooting 10 and then say 'You give me full amnesty and I'll let the other 40 go'."
Gen Alexander also said suggestions that the agency was routinely eavesdropping on the phone calls of Americans were false.
He said: "NSA can only target the communications of a US person with a probable cause finding under specific court order," he said, referring to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

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