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> Snowden did enormous damage to US and allies with his indiscriminate distribution of classified information Sure, in the same way that the police do to organ
by sealeck 4y ago
> Snowden did enormous damage to US and allies with his indiscriminate distribution of classified information
Sure, in the same way that the police do to organised white-collar criminals when they arrest them and put them in prison.
- andrewmutz 4y agoI am not the parent poster, but Snowden revealed far more information than was necessary to blow the whistle on domestic spying at the NSA. Just take a look at the list of revelations https://www.lawfareblog.com/snowden-revelations https://www.lawfareblog.com/snowden-revelations Most of the revelations are not at all about domestic spying and instead revealed details about doing what the NSA is chartered to do: international spying. You can consider it immoral that the NSA monitored the communications of Angela Merkel or the italian ministry of defense, but that isn't whistle-blowing. It's the reason that the NSA exists.
- sealeck 4y ago> You can consider it immoral that the NSA monitored the communications of Angela Merkel or the italian ministry of defense, but that isn't whistle-blowing. It's the reason that the NSA exists. It is definitely whisteblowing to reveal that a country has been secretely wiretapping the communications of its (supposed) allies – one can blow the whistle on things which are "legal" especially when their legality has been surreptitiously pushed through the back door.