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While it's certainly interesting, I don't think this excerpt from his book explains at all why he became a whistleblower.

• knodi123 7y ago
  Sure it does. > Over the course of my career, it became increasingly difficult for me to ask these questions about the technologies I was responsible for and not about my country. And it became increasingly frustrating to me that I was able to repair the former but not the latter. He was trying to repair our government by judicious application of sunshine.
  • jacobush 7y ago
    Imagine how many tried moonshine before that.
    • arminiusreturns 7y ago
      There is a reason alcoholism was/is rampant in many three letters, but is quietly ignored.
  • kerkeslager 7y ago
    The thing you quoted does not say what you say it says. I think we agree on why Snowden blew the whistle, I just don't think it says that in the excerpt.