“any alleged ‘damage’ that might result from their revelations are nothing compared to the institutional treason that has been going on for decades.”
Bozo the peanut-farming bunny victim got a lot of people killed with his big mouth. Killed like Rich was killed. Their one and only lives were taken from them because he was a blabbermouth.
That is not “nothing,” no matter what you compare it to.
You can talk about “knee jerking” all you like; I will never forget a film from boot camp about a swift boat that got shot up and its crew killed because of a single radio transmission in the clear.
“the institutional treason that has been going on for decades.”
Yeah, that’s the big picture. However, we also have to consider the small picture, the release of a seemingly innocuous piece of data that allows some commie or some muzzie to realize, “Hey, that could only have come from Billy Bob over there.”
Sure, I want Nasty Bill and Rotten Rodham exposed, probably as much as anybody. Actually, I want to see Rotten Hillbillary indicted, tried, convicted, sentenced, and duly executed. Preferably by the end of the year. But I do not approve of getting good guys killed through carelessness.
There are very good reasons for communications security, and if it is to be violated, extreme care should be taken.
You make good points, and we’re in basic agreement about them, however the actions of Assange and Snowden fall into the category of “those ships have sailed”, and the rightness or wrongness of what they did can be debated forever and a day, however what they exposed was in fact criminal behavior (the NSA and other agencies betraying the Constitution in the case of Snowden), and purloined emails from Hillary Clinton and the ‘RAT DNC in the case of Assange.
I’m not at all advocating carelessness in the handling of classified data, however that ship has also sailed, and the bottom line is that Assange and Snowden did us a favor in exposing the criminal actions of those who are supposed to obey the law.
The other ‘contributor’ to this discussion stated immediately that ‘Assange was a criminal’ and I’d like to see someone provide proof of his criminal conviction, ditto for Snowden. Those two individuals have been *accused* of wrong doing, but if the ‘Rule of Law’ is to be the highest standard, then they need to be proven in a court of law.
UNLESS however, that court system has been corrupted and compromised by subversion, which we saw on full display in the case or Loretta Lynch, James Comey, and their ‘RAT masters they were covering for. That alone proves that the ‘Rule of Law’ is on life support, and those ‘RAT traitors are busy putting a pillowcase over it’s head.