Re:Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video]
by resters on Friday October 25, 2019 @01:25PM
(#21357190)
> Snowden was far more interested in PRISM, an obviously legal program) is not whistleblowing
The public outrage was due to various top officials denying that anything like PRISM was going on, when in fact it was.
So either the program was illegal, the false statements made by officials about them, or the classification of the process that prevented democratic oversight. One of the three had to be illegal, it's not really relevant to split hairs over which was one actually was.
The public outrage was due to various top officials denying that anything like PRISM was going on, when in fact it was.
So either the program was illegal, the false statements made by officials about them, or the classification of the process that prevented democratic oversight. One of the three had to be illegal, it's not really relevant to split hairs over which was one actually was.