>The main difference is what they believe they're doing. I seriously doubt that most or many people at the NSA think they're in the line of "suppression of diss

>The main difference is what they believe they're doing. I seriously doubt that most or many people at the NSA think they're in the line of "suppression of dissent". What's with all the whistleblowing then? Snowden wasn't the only one. He was just the one who released the information directly to the public (at enormous personal risk).