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Isn't this the reason why governments react harshly to people like Snowden and Manning? To discourage even worse breaches?
by sickbeard 10y ago
Isn't this the reason why governments react harshly to people like Snowden and Manning? To discourage even worse breaches?
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- matt_wulfeck 10y agoClearly the harsh reaction to Snowden has done nothing in this case. I wonder what the reaction would be if Snowden would have been treated like a whistleblower and not a traitor?
- sickbeard 10y agoCompared to past infractions Snowden has gotten off relatively easy
- paulmd 10y agoLargely because Snowden is outside the political reach of the US for the moment, and the USG realizes it would be counterproductive to throw a public temper tantrum about it. If he hadn't fled it's quite likely he would have faced the same kind of treatment as Thomas Drake and William Binney, if not harsher.
- dghughes 10y ago> Thomas Drake and William Binney Someone should write a book or make a movie about those two men the modern equivalent of All the President's Men.