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Re:The Intercept cuts back by throw2016 on Sunday March 17, 2019 @10:38AM (#19414229)
There has been zero consequences from the entire set of revelations. What is the incentive to continue to do investigate journalism as great risk to one self when there are no results?

What Snowden seems to have inadvertently revealed is a culture that is a lot more interested in posturing around these issues than the issues themselves. And its those breaking the illusion be it Snowden, Manning or Assange who will face the music while civil society looks the other way.

Re:The Intercept cuts back by lern_too_spel on Sunday March 17, 2019 @01:09PM (#19415016)
Zero consequences? There was one illegal program (phone metadata collection) in the revelations. It was shut down. The revelations showed that the NSA had in the past extracted email metadata from email companies from international cables. The email companies have since encrypted their cross-datacenter internal traffic. Snowden disclosed many Chinese targets to the PRC. The PRC has presumably secured them.
Re:The Intercept cuts back by throw2016 on Sunday March 17, 2019 @02:38PM (#19415555)
If you think Snowden leaks was about 'one illegal program' you are seriously misinformed and have a lot of catching up to do. These are large scale and illegal mass surveillance programs. [1][2][3][4][5]. More can be found here. [6]

No one has been held accountable for these illegal programs. The then head of NSA James Clapper brazenly lied to Congress and has still not being held accountable. [7]. On the contrary there is a grand jury out to get Assange, Manning is back in jail and Snowden is being hounded and in exile. No good deed goes unpunished.

China had nothing to do with the Snowden leaks or any of these secret mass surveillance programs as you will discover. Happy reading!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairview_(surveillance_program...

[5]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundless_Informant

[6] https://theintercept.com/search/?s=snowden

[7] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/19/republicans-co...