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Re:Spy or whistleblower? Should Obama settle with Snowden? by jonknee on Saturday July 16, 2016 @09:33PM (#12108642)
> Leaking classified material was sacrilege in Washington

Umm, more like it was standard operating procedure. How else do you think all the anonymously sourced articles in the NYT/WaPo/WSJ happen?

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Re:Spy or whistleblower? Should Obama settle with Snowden? by adrenalinelol on Saturday July 16, 2016 @10:30PM (#12108785)
When related to the NSA/CIA collecting nearly every once of data a citizen dispense online? No, that wasn't standard procedure.
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Re:Spy or whistleblower? Should Obama settle with Snowden? by jonknee on Saturday July 16, 2016 @10:33PM (#12108794)
Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts Dec 16, 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/bush-lets-us-spy-...

> Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials.

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Re:Spy or whistleblower? Should Obama settle with Snowden? by adrenalinelol on Saturday July 16, 2016 @10:42PM (#12108810)
# articles related to it prior vs. after Snowden, after Snowden would be an order of magnitude more per capita.
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