I believe Q has provided sufficient dotage to conclude that @Snowden was a CIA operative that was planted into the NSA to, at the appointed time, make the NSA look bad to the people of the US.
OTOH, Assange is a hero of sorts but...not a patriot. He’s in it for himself...to serve his white-hot hatred of all things Clinton.
Agreed also that secure drop wasn’t so secure
But a way to get whistleblowers before they could go public
Freedom of the Press.
John Perry Barlow.
https://freedom.press
SecureDrop [Whistleblowers]?
SecureDrop>Clowns In America.
NOBODY IS SAFE.
Q
In 2013, the United States Department of Justice, under Attorney General Eric Holder, came under scrutiny from the media and some members of Congress for subpoenaing phone records from the Associated Press (AP). Under similar justifications, a 2010 subpoena approved by Eric Holder implicated Fox News reporter, James Rosen, as a possible co-conspirator under the Espionage Act of 1917. Investigators gained access to the times of his phone calls, and two days of Rosen’s emails. Stephen Jin-Woo Kim eventually pleaded guilty to violating the Espionage Act for communicating North Korean nuclear test plans to Rosen. These investigations provoked considerable criticism from major news organizations, and precipitated the revision of media guidelines at the Department of Justice.
CNN’s Tapper: Obama has used Espionage Act more than all previous administrations
The federal criminal charges filed against National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden make it seven times that the Obama administration has used the Espionage Act against government workers who shared information with the press. In at least two instances, the government’s investigations have delved into the practices of reporters and news organizations and put reporters in legal jeopardy.
The basic numbers
Most tallies, like the one by the investigative service ProPublica, begin with Daniel Ellsberg and the release of the Vietnam War era documents known as the Pentagon Papers. Including Ellsberg, the government has used the Espionage Act 10 times to prosecute government workers who shared classified information with journalists. If we push back to 1945, there is one more case. So of those 11, seven have taken place while Barack Obama has been president.
The whistleblower label debate
The Justice Department does not quibble about number of prosecutions but in a statement to PunditFact, the department said: “It is definitely not the case that anyone who leaks classified information is a whistleblower. Very few of those prosecuted in recent years for unauthorized disclosures even sought to be considered that way.”
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Which also connects to Q drop 770 and the snowmen documentary movie citizen four which I posted about before.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3732900/posts?page=1751#1751
I agree, and if Snowden were a good guy, why didn’t he come back to the US already?