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In reply to the discussion: Whether some DUers like him or not [View all]spooky3
(34,657 posts)In the story you quote, the *NSA* said they were legal, and that may have rendered the statutory protections for whistleblowers unavailable to Snowden. The WB protections in the US have been criticized by experts such as Devine, Dworkin, Moberly, and others as weak, too limited, and full of holes, for a long time.
The NSA is hardly the best arbiter of whether they or their agents and contractors engaged in wrongdoing.
There are stories all over the web describing independent findings of wrongdoing, concerns about questionable, immoral practices, etc. here is just one:
http://m.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-broke-privacy-rules-thousands-of-times-per-year-audit-finds/2013/08/15/3310e554-05ca-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html