Snowden: US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian publishing revelations

Re:Snowden: US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian pub... by sealeck on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:46AM (#32663771)

> Snowden did enormous damage to US and allies with his indiscriminate distribution of classified information

Sure, in the same way that the police do to organised white-collar criminals when they arrest them and put them in prison.

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Re:Snowden: US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian pub... by andrewmutz on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:31PM (#32664627)

I am not the parent poster, but Snowden revealed far more information than was necessary to blow the whistle on domestic spying at the NSA.

Just take a look at the list of revelations

https://www.lawfareblog.com/snowden-revelations

Most of the revelations are not at all about domestic spying and instead revealed details about doing what the NSA is chartered to do: international spying.

You can consider it immoral that the NSA monitored the communications of Angela Merkel or the italian ministry of defense, but that isn't whistle-blowing. It's the reason that the NSA exists.

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Re:Snowden: US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian pub... by sealeck on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:40PM (#32664784)

> You can consider it immoral that the NSA monitored the communications of Angela Merkel or the italian ministry of defense, but that isn't whistle-blowing. It's the reason that the NSA exists.

It is definitely whisteblowing to reveal that a country has been secretely wiretapping the communications of its (supposed) allies – one can blow the whistle on things which are "legal" especially when their legality has been surreptitiously pushed through the back door.

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