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In reply to the discussion: Snowden: I Raised NSA Concerns Internally Over 10 Times Before Going Rogue - WaPo [View all]Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)All Snowden has to do is out a couple of people overstepping their bounds or involved in a cover-up (he has thousands of signed documents and memos as proof of lawbreaking) and Justice will pretty much have to act...
I understand him wanting to spare some low-level peons or mindless cogs in the machine, but at least give Justice a toehold so they can get a little momentum...
If anything, I'd thought he'd do it just for the sake of getting the media scrutineers off his back... Because it's clear by now he does have something he wants to keep hidden...The funny part is when the story first broke, there was a clear, definite "force the issue and keep the defenders off-balance" strategy while they were getting the ball rolling (and in case anyone missed it, there was a very clear pattern to the stories last summer and fall being timed for maximum exposure, maximum outrage from citizens and maximum embarrassment for Washington)...But after almost a year of building a case of illegal acts, only now do they get conservative?