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I do not see that argument being made. Maybe he is guilty, but it was only brought to light because he did not do what the NSA wanted.
by davorak 13y ago
I do not see that argument being made. Maybe he is guilty, but it was only brought to light because he did not do what the NSA wanted.
- mpyne 13y agoThen I don't feel sorry for him. Two wrongs don't make a right, if you don't want to go to jail for insider trading then don't put yourself, your company, and your customers in a position to be compromised by blackmail. That right there is beyond despicable.
- davorak 13y ago> Then I don't feel sorry for him. I guess I never thought of it being about feeling sorry for him. It was about the NSA using black mail to get CEOs to do what they want. Allowing CEOs to get away with crimes such as insider trading as long as they did what the NSA wanted. If I try to imagine the consequences of this it includes promoting corruption at the CEO level down in the industries that the NSA deals with. The long term effects of this are certainly negative and hard to quantify. Now are the negative consequences out weighed by the benefit that the NSA receives and passes on to the USA then to the world? I do not know, I am not familiar enough with that arena, it is far from an obvious win from where I am sitting however.