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Originally Posted by DTK
He did risk his life. And he went to one of the two countries in the world that 1) aren't hardcore allies who would gladly give him up and 2) even the US wouldn't fuck with in terms of violating their sovereignty for an assassination or capture attempt. Had he gone to Ecuador, he'd already be dead or in US custody.
You obviously know nothing about how previous whistleblowers (who tried to do it through official channels) are treated. Their lives become a living hell. Fired, smeared, blackballed and even jailed. Power doesn't like being called on its shit.
Google Thomas Drake (former senior exec at NSA) and educate yourself a little bit.
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snowden didn't risk jack shit, i googled thomas drake back in fucking june when snowden first stole the documents.
here's what i found:
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On June 9, 2011, all 10 original charges against him were dropped. Drake rejected several deals because he refused to "plea bargain with the truth". He eventually pled to one misdemeanor count for exceeding authorized use of a computer;[10] Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project, who helped represent him, called it an act of "civil disobedience."
Drake is one of four individuals in the history of the United States who has been charged specifically with “willful retention” of “national defense” information under 18 U.S.C. § 793(e). Anthony Russo and Daniel Ellsberg were the first to be prosecuted for the “retention” of what came to be known as the Pentagon Papers which Ellsberg gave to the New York Times, eventually resulting in another landmark Espionage Act case in 1971, New York Times Co. v. United States. The prosecution of Russo and Ellsberg was dismissed in 1972 because of government misconduct. The second prosecution was of Samuel Loring Morison in 1985, a Navy analyst who sold satellite photographs to Jane's Defense Weekly; he was later pardoned by President Bill Clinton. The third was the American Israel Public Affairs Committee case in 2005, United States v. Franklin, Rosen, and Weissman.[4]
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can you read that? THOMAS DRAKE WAS NOT CHARGED WITH ANY FELONIES AND IS A FREE MAN LIVING IN THE USA.
IN FACT, NO ONE EVER HAS SUFFERED SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FROM EXPOSING THE NSA-
so, sure thing, there's your google facts on thomas drake.
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