Ken Langone, co-founder of Home Depot on Edward Snowden: ‘I’d thank him for helping to protect America’s privacy rights’
In an interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox News, co-founder of Home Depot, Ken Langone gave some powerful opinions on NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden.
Langone compares the Snowden situation to the Daniel Ellsberg case of 42 years ago. As you may recall, Ellsberg, while employed by the RAND Corporation, started a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.
“What’s different about this young man [Snowden] now, letting this out? Tell me what’s different?, Langone asks.
Cavuto asks what Langone would do different with Edward Snowden. Hi reply, “I’d throw a party for him, I’d congratulate him, I’d thank him for helping to protect America’s privacy rights.”
“I think this young man showed a lot of courage and a lot of guts and grit. And I think we ought to be grateful to have kids like that in America who understand the meaning of freedom and privacy and liberty.”
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