The chilling effect it causes has already caused a ton of harm. For instance, I can never run for office because I don’t want the public to know what I said on Facebook when I was 16.
Basically everything I have said to anyone since I was a young child is sitting in their data center, ready to blackmail me if I ever tried to run for office or pursue any power.
Ditto for everyone else here that grew up in the age of the internet and the patriot act
People who care about the rule of law and not having the most powerful bureaucracy in the history of the universe point their targets at our fellow citizens for basically no reason.
A traitor to what? Not the country. Maybe to the NSA.
To be fair I think the NSA has done more to harm Americans than Snowden ever could have (and didn’t). If you want to call someone a traitor maybe point your finger at clapper and the other pieces of shit at the NSA that target Americans.
This type of shit is why I am always refusing to get a clearance. I wouldn’t be able to strut around proudly about how I’m destroying the country like this guy.