denisdman wrote:
I remain firmly in the Snowden is a whistle-blower camp.
I strenuously object.
His exposure of the NSA is fine, almost certainly to be lauded. If he'd have stopped there, then he'd be in much better shape.
Instead, the dope then vomited the methods and means of how the US as a whole gathers intel ... nobody needs to know that - not you, me, or any other country ... no US citizen gained anything from that.
Someone exposing written documentation and a/v of just how badly KFC treats it's workers or chickens is great. Going on then to release their trade and marketing secrets is just being a petty, punitive Caller Bob, not to mention likely an attention whore.
Anyway, then he says "hey, America spies on her allies and I gots ta tell somebody 'bout it!" ... well no shit, sister ... is there anyone with an IQ over 90 that
didn't think/'know' that, or any other country that didn't think/'know' that, or any other country that didn't do it too? That wasn't to inform anyone about anything, he did it to stroke himself under the poorly-fashioned guise of ... I don't know what, "personal duty"?