Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower

[Henry M]

Whether or not you like the results of Snowden's revelation, he's certainly
is closer to being a whistle-blower than Manning.  Many people who have
never handled sensitive information miss an important element of what
employees, government or otherwise, are told vis-a-vis whistle-blowing,
which is the requirement to bring the problem to one's superiors or to some
office specially designated for receiving such information.

If Snowden had done so, he probably would have been informed that while he,
and many other people, may have philosophical (and perhaps moral) concerns
about the NSA surveilance progam, it wasn't illegal and it wasn't against
government or program policy, direction, or charter, things that Manning is
too apparently too young and mixed-up to understand, but which someone in
Snowden's former positon should.

However much you may like them and the results of what they've done,
Snowden and Manning broke the law and were aware of the consequence of
doing so. That there are bankers who broke the law (many just did very
wrong things) and who should be prosecuted in what would be very
complicated cases does not, in a nation of laws, give other people such as
Snowden and Manning, a free pass.

Yours truly,
٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
Henry Musikar, CISSP
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:39 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> i can accept the release of what the NSA has been up to with wiretapping
> and the like  but if this guy also gave out secrets about US plans
> regarding cyberattack strategies/defense I think that's something he should
> be prosecuted for
>
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