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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
Was he given an illegal order? What specifically was illegal about his instructions ? There is an awful lot of overly vague accusations in all of this, very few specifics. Perhaps you, as someone who's career largely depends on specifics, might enlighten us?
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I posted this in response to the oversimplfying post of an earlier poster who was under the misapprehension that it was enough to say that Snowden violated regulations and orders, as if that fully resolved the issue. It does not.
Time will tell, I hope, whether the Constitution and the First Amendment in particular mandate a whistleblower's exception to orders and regulations that mandate confidentiality. Were it otherwise, the secrecy thus coerced by penal sanctions would prevent an effective opportunity for injured members of the public to learn about the injury, proceed in court to their remedies, and to have the operation of unconstitutional laws restrained by the courts.
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Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice. . . Restraint in the pursuit of Justice is no virtue.
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