Its not the same thing at all. The people coming forward about a sex offender have absolutely nothing to fear; they weren't the ones that broke the law. On the

Its not the same thing at all. The people coming forward about a sex offender have absolutely nothing to fear; they weren't the ones that broke the law. On the other hand, revealing classified information will send you to prison for decades. Depending on what you do for a living, it could even result in the death penalty. Best case scenario, you will spend the rest of your life living in a country with a government worse than your own, wondering when a member of the intelligence community is going to murder you. The comparison really doesn't hold up. Also, think of how badly this has damaged not only the U.S. government, but also the private sector. No company in its right mind, foreign or domestic, still wants their data to traverse networks from the United States. They might not be able to avoid it, but that's besides the point. By the time all is said and done, tens of billions, if not trillions of dollars in damages will have been done to the U.S. economy. The NSA's shenanigans have been the most detrimental thing to happen to the United States in at least a decade. Unfortunately, the government doesn't blame themselves, they blame Edward Snowden. And so you can be sure that billions of dollars and tens of thousands of man-hours are being dedicated to the task of closing any holes that allowed Snowden to leave the country with large amounts of classified information.