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I 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

I 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.