Snowden calls for whistleblower shield after claims by new Pentagon source

Re:Snowden calls for whistleblower shield after claims by ne... by jazzyk on Sunday May 22, 2016 @03:04PM (#11749796)

Sorry, but this is FUD. He didn't dump information on a random server somewhere. He worked with the journalists from The Guardian, The WaPo and the NYT. They said they reached out to the gov to work with them and were turned down. How much more effort would satisfy you?

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Re:Snowden calls for whistleblower shield after claims by ne... by mercurialshark on Sunday May 22, 2016 @03:43PM (#11749946)

Oh wow, why not disseminate classified information to your priest or scout master? A foreign journalist is equally arbitrary. Being a self-identified position of authority or confidence does not endow that person with clearance or special knowledge.

"He didn't dump information on a random server somewhere." - That's exactly what he did. Once it left the secure facility, it was no longer secure and vulnerable - tis the point.

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Re:Snowden calls for whistleblower shield after claims by ne... by jazzyk on Sunday May 22, 2016 @04:04PM (#11750040)

So what exactly was he supposed to do? The people "cleared" to see the info are the perpetrators who blatantly violated (and keep violating) the constitution.

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