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In reply to the discussion: Suck it up, Snowden-haters: New Yorker on "Why Citizenfour Deserved Its Oscar" [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... that that was why he went to prison and others didn't who also supported waterboarding and ordered taped evidence of waterboarding be destroyed were "less guilty" than him and that justice was even handed and whistleblowers weren't singled out for prosecution?
You live in a world of delusion dude. Either conveniently and complicitly or very ignorantly. John Kiriakou wasn't put in prison for his earlier positions supporting waterboarding, but for later explaining why he had second thoughts on what was going on with that and how the whole process was messed up. He was imprisoned for being a whistleblower, which our justice system punishes more than it does those that break many other laws and get away with it.
My point wasn't what Sibel Edmonds and Glen Greenwald felt about each other. My point was that the FISA court has been a joke in terms of providing any kind of real check on the NSA and other parts of the intelligence establishment following any kind of reasonable set of rules of protecting most innocent Americans from having their 4th amendment rights violated.
Whistleblowers have been abused lately, especially those in the intelligence industry, which many bills that have gone through congress that have sought to protect whistleblowers make exceptions for when they protect other whistleblowers, but not security establishment whistleblowers.
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