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US court: NSA mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
- merricksb 6y agoTwo large threads about this already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24356741 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24356741 (1637 points/466 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24362047 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24362047 (404 points/101 comments)
- meowface 6y agoDoes he get validation for the thousands of documents he disclosed that were unrelated to the illegal domestic surveillance or other domestic activities? He was kind of already validated in the public eye many years ago for the dragnet surveillance reveal, whether or not the letter of the law considered the NSA in violation. I feel like he would've been much more likely to receive a pardon in the past or next few years if he had only given journalists information about their unconstitutional activities, rather than basically the whole kitchen sink of their operations across the globe.