This is exactly the part people should weight heavily -- these patriots used official channels, were punished and support his actions: > Binney, Drake, Radack,

This is exactly the part people should weight heavily -- these patriots used official channels, were punished and support his actions: > Binney, Drake, Radack, Edmunds, Tice, Manning, Tamm, Leibowitz, every one of these people and more have suffered terrible consequences for whistleblowing. Most used official channels, none fled to adversarial jurisdictions. Most support Snowden's flight, none have condemned him for it.