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In reply to the discussion: NSA Staffer: Snowden Didn't Dupe Coworkers Out of Passwords [View all]NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)But you know whose fault that is? It's not the Guardian, Der Spiegel, Snowden, or Greenwald's.
Compared to the very few lives these leaks could put in danger, how many do you think the MIC and the NSA already does put in danger through their reckless adventurism, fomenting terrorism and anti-American/Western sentiment abroad? Even if these leaks endangered agents, it would pale in comparison to the number of lives not only endangered but ended or ruined by the blowback to these agencies' operations.
If NSA agents or intelligence personnel get put in danger, it'll be the intelligence community's own damned fault for fostering an environment that doesn't encourage reporting wrongdoing or overreach and the failures of the inept and corrupt politicians on the intelligence and oversight committees who sweep these complaints under the rug at the behest of their donors.
The newspapers are doing their best to protect lives, but at this point, the intelligence community and the MIC has created a monster, and if the only channel to expose it costs people their lives, then serious changes need to be made to make whistleblowing actually mean something internally.