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No law legally is able to force anyone to not disclose illegal acts. In the case of Snowden, question is if the acts disclosed were illegal.

• ikeboy 10y ago
  It's clear that not everything disclosed was illegal under US law, there's no real case to be made that it was.
  • monocasa 10y ago
    Not everything disclosed in the Pentagon Papers was illegal either. If the requirement is that everything in the disclosure needs to be illegal, then whistleblowing is de facto illegal.
    • ikeboy 10y ago
      Releasing the Pentagon papers was illegal, but Ellsberg's prosecutors messed up, violated the law in a number of ways themselves, so he got off. The way to whistleblow legally is either to carefully go over the material and only release parts that are illegal, or report it to the higher authorities instead of the public.