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> Otherwise anyone can do a few years in jail and then make $x million by telling what he saw while working for CIA/NSA etc. Why do you think that the only two
by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> Otherwise anyone can do a few years in jail and then make $x million by telling what he saw while working for CIA/NSA etc.
Why do you think that the only two alternatives is to allow people to sell secrets to foreign governments and sell revelations about illegal actions of the state or to punish both in the same way? Why do you think it is impossible to distinguish those two cases?
- disintegore 7y agoI think his point is that the law is being applied consistently. If Snowden received a pardon (and he absolutely unarguably should) this would not be problem.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y agoFor one, the law is not being applied consistently. The abusers are still not in jail. Rather, the abuse is still going on, still breaking the law. But also, actually, it would be a problem, because the law would still be broken, because the law still systematically protects the abusers. What is needed is a change to the unjust law, not some exception for someone who highlighted that that is what it is.