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The most extraordinary thing about Snowden is not that he took the documents: it is that he sacrificed his whole life to make them public. And this should make
by felipeerias 13y ago
The most extraordinary thing about Snowden is not that he took the documents: it is that he sacrificed his whole life to make them public.
And this should make us scared. A guy like Snowden was extremely improbable, and yet he happened. So, what to think about the far more likely case of NSA employees taking extremely sensitive information and selling it privately? How many of those have there been already?
- GVIrish 13y ago1000 times this. If Snowden could do what he did and the NSA doesn't even know what he took, it is inevitable that a hostile foreign government will infiltrate the NSA. It is also highly probable that there are people in the intelligence apparatus that are abusing their power in some way or another. There have already been about a dozen cases in the NSA of 'LOVEINT' where employees were spying illicitly on love interests. From what I recall, all of those people volunteered that they were spying illegally on their own, none of them were caught by any internal review process.