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Originally Posted by crockett
So did Mark Felt... yet he was never jailed and his leak took down a President.
The govt was breaking the law spying on Americans. Every person with that information had a duty to release it.
Snowden was the only one with the balls and integrity to do so.
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You are comparing apples to poorly hung panda bears.
Mark Felt saw our government commit a crime and leaked information to the press. In the process, Mark Felt broke the law, was arrested, went to trial and was found guilty, and was later pardoned. This is understandable and acceptable - The laws he broke were minor compared to the crimes he exposed.
Snowden didn't expose any crimes. Yes, he exposed that our government was collecting meta data on phone calls but (correct me if I am wrong) this was never considered illegal, and no one has ever been charged with a crime. On the other hand, Snowden was the worst leak of classified information the United States intelligence agencies has ever had. Basically he told terrorists how we were trying to track them through Europe and the United States.