{"id":3428,"date":"2014-05-28T14:03:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2014-06-02T15:18:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T19:18:49","slug":"john-kerry-edward-snowden-a-coward-traitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2014\/05\/john-kerry-edward-snowden-a-coward-traitor\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kerry: Edward Snowden a \u2018coward … traitor\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Edward Snowden is a \u201ccoward,\u201d Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday in response to the NSA leaker\u2019s first television interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cEdward Snowden is a coward,\u201d Kerry told Chuck Todd on MSNBC. \u201cHe is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a series of interviews on the Wednesday morning shows, Kerry addressed the interview between Snowden and NBC News anchor Brian Williams.<\/p>\n

The nation\u2019s top diplomat conceded to Todd that the debate about privacy and the NSA would not have \u201crisen\u201d to its current level without the Snowden disclosures. But he insisted the issues were important to President Barack Obama before the leaks and said the disclosures imperiled national security.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore importantly, much more importantly, what he\u2019s done is hurt his country,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat he\u2019s done is expose, for terrorists, a lot of mechanisms which now affect operational security of those terrorists and make it harder for the United States to break up plots, harder to protect our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

via John Kerry: Edward Snowden a \u2018coward … traitor\u2019 – Jonathan Topaz – POLITICO.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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