Releasing information on how our intelligence gathering works risks endangering everyone against those who would do us harm. As an absolute, that is flatly true. The issue is how much, and how much is a reasonable trade off against the potential for us not knowing to do us harm.
Completely ignoring either side of the equation is reckless. This whole thread is about the perception that Bolton is disregarding domestic danger by an over-emphasis on terrorist and foreign danger...which he may well be...but that doesn’t mean disregarding damage to our intelligence collecting is of no consequence either.
“but that doesn’t mean disregarding damage to our intelligence collecting is of no consequence either.”
As I see it, the damage is minimal. The terrorists already knew well before this that internet exchanges and wiretapping was taking place to try to track them down. What wasn’t known by the U.S. populace was that millions of those intercepts were of our citizenry itself, and being stored where at any time any lowlife in our current administration (or in future crooked ones) could mine it to be abused for political purposes. This is where Mr. Snowden comes in. He exposed to Americans that which they had no idea of, and to what an extent data mining was being done. I’m on the liberty and freedom side of this, you appear to have chosen the neo-con, hawk only, secrecy, RINO establishment side of this. To each their own.