NSA leaker is a patriot, not a traitor

Re:NSA leaker is a patriot, not a traitor by flyinRyan on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @07:59AM (#5861114)

This is different and you know it. The Normandy invasion is one specific operation of one specific group. Cops doing a raid would be a similar thing. In both cases, their activities are isolated to that one specific area and they only need be secret for a relatively short period of time.

Contrast this with things like NSA: no end date, literally global scope, etc. Surely you can see how these things are different.

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Re:NSA leaker is a patriot, not a traitor by twoodfin on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @09:24AM (#5861542)

So intelligence services in general are out?

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Re:NSA leaker is a patriot, not a traitor by flyinRyan on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @10:38AM (#5862002)

Yes probably. Anything that can't be held accountable publicly is just begging for abuse. Governments draw dangerous people to want to work for them so they will be creating illegal secret structures in any case. We shouldn't be making it even easier for them.

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