The US needs to negotiate a settlement regarding the Snowden leaks.

By MARK MAZZETTI and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

Published: December 14, 2013

WASHINGTON — American intelligence (click here) and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden extracted from classified government computers before leaving the United States, according to senior government officials....

The United States is responsible for Mr. Snowden's disgust with it. It allows free and open access to delicate information of the USA to Wall Street. It is outrageous this happened in the first place. It is also very corrupt. Wall Street is NOT the sovereign USA. The USA allowed this. It built an ungainly and uncontrollable National Security State and never bothered to sincerely secure the country against exploitation. Wall Street has actively used sensitive records of this country to plot their own course. Insider trading if you will. There is no reason for any of it. Contractors receive information based in their contracts, not the entire of the intelligence of the USA.

This is definitely the mistake of the USA. Now, the country needs to reclaim what is theirs and negotiate with those involved to close the book on this damage to our country.

The leaks have been enlightening and our democracy is LESS FREE because of the privatized National Security State. Enough.

If the USA wants to be responsible and end the hideous circumstances it finds itself in then it is time to negotiate and end to this stupidity. The country is suppose to be compromised forever? I don't think so. 

No money. No power. But a willingness to recognize the lack of accountability to the people of this nation from it's beginning and returning rights to Mr. Snowden and others involved in ending this imposition on innocent lives, priorities that do not serve the nation well. The USA has to end this mess and the sooner the better.

I am quite sure President Obama has taken this breach to our national security seriously. Now he has to close the ability for Wall Street to access sensitive information of the nation. He has to end this and if it requires legislation perhaps it could be a place where Congress and he agrees.

This mess is huge and was started under Bush. The intelligence of the USA became an open book under the previous administration and the accountability has to be conducted and never repeated again.