“Tell me who Snowden could take his concerns to? He would have been fired and the story buried forever. And you know that”
I don’t think I can respond to abject nihilism.
Your comment does reinforce my original observation that there is a subset of people, ostensibly conservatives, who see hostile foreign entities such as the Guardian, as their champion.
Cmon now, you are the one making the claims.
Please tell us all who Snowden could have gone to with his concerns.
I don’t think I can respond to abject nihilism.
How about responding to abject reality?
USA Today has published an extraordinary interview with three former NSA employees who praise Edward Snowden's leaks, corroborate some of his claims, and warn about unlawful government acts.(emphasis added)Thomas Drake, William Binney, and J. Kirk Wiebe each protested the NSA in their own rights. "For years, the three whistle-blowers had told anyone who would listen that the NSA collects huge swaths of communications data from U.S. citizens," the newspaper reports. "They had spent decades in the top ranks of the agency, designing and managing the very data collection systems they say have been turned against Americans. When they became convinced that fundamental constitutional rights were being violated, they complained first to their superiors, then to federal investigators, congressional oversight committees and, finally, to the news media."
In other words, they blew the whistle in the way Snowden's critics suggest he should have done. Their method didn't get through to the members of Congress who are saying, in the wake of the Snowden leak, that they had no idea what was going on. But they are nonetheless owed thanks....