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Originally Posted by crockett
To those that keep saying Snowden was wrong for running...
I give you the words of Daniel Ellsberg the leaker of the Pentagon papers.
The full article which is worth the read..
washingtonpost.com/opinions/daniel-ellsberg-nsa-leaker-snowden-made-the-right-call/2013/07/07/0b46d96c-e5b7-11e2-aef3-339619eab080_story.html?hpid=z2
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interesting opinion. unfortunately, his opinion appears to be skewed to his case because the usa of today is very much not like he describes and the nsa leaker that proves that is thomas drake, the person most articles i've read that make comparisons use, and he doesn't even mention drake in his opinion.
nevertheless, he was not penalized in any major way then and neither was drake just a few short years ago.
imo, the drake case is more similar for comparison purposes.
Thomas Andrews Drake is a former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), a decorated United States Air Force and United States Navy veteran, and a whistleblower.
In 2010 the government alleged that Drake 'mishandled' documents, one of the few such Espionage Act cases in U.S. history. Drake's defenders claim that he was instead being persecuted for challenging the Trailblazer Project. He is the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling and co-recipient of the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award.
On June 9, 2011, all 10 original charges against him were dropped. Drake rejected several deals because he refused to "plea bargain with the truth". He eventually pled to one misdemeanor count for exceeding authorized use of a computer