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I remember when the scandal first broke I asked a friend whether he thought Snowden had truly tried to follow proper whistleblowing channels before going rogue.
by nugget 10y ago
I remember when the scandal first broke I asked a friend whether he thought Snowden had truly tried to follow proper whistleblowing channels before going rogue. To which my friend replied, ''Do you really think the NSA would have shut down a multi billion dollar project because a young kid in Hawaii raised some Constitutional objections?'' I know a lot of good people working at three letter agencies but I do think they take on a life, mission, and momentum of their own sometimes.
- gumby 10y agoThe article cites Snowden as saying that as a contractor he was not subject to the protections of the whistleblower law. Perhaps I should write "protections" since we also know that whistleblowers are punished rather than protected.
- joe_the_user 10y agoSure, But I would expect Snowden was also smart enough not to raise extremely strong sounding objections since he probably couldn't have done what he wound-up doing if he had. After all, Snowden basically saw a couple other NSA dissidents who went entirely through the chain of command get eaten up and chewed out. This is the context of these events.