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Re:The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun by prostoalex on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @12:41PM (#5862950)
Just this morning they had a conversation on the correct way to use the term "whistleblower". Technically it's someone exposing illegal activity, but hey, we have this secret court issuing this secret order, which makes it all fine and legal, so the term does not apply to Snowden.
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Re:The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun by marssaxman on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @04:49PM (#5864629)
In secret, with the secret court and the secret order, perhaps he's not a whistleblower, but in public, where we don't know about that secret court or that secret order, he sure is a whistleblower.

Yay for having a secret legal system.

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Re:The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun by talmand on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @06:11PM (#5865064)
Since it's all such a big secret then perhaps the existence of the material cannot be proven, therefore he leaked nothing.
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