“Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?”

[a kennedy]

Wow, kinda reminds me of it......does it you?? Here's the list of the top 10 whistleblowers...... http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-whistle-blowers.php#_/exjun_ and this is just one source. What a world we live in. I DON'T WANT MY 15 MINUTES OF FAME.

[Tx4obama]

1. Snowden is NOT a whistleblower. Whisleblowers leak illegal things. Stuff Snowden leaked was legal.

He should be arrested and put on trial.

[BlueCheese]

2. Whistleblowers leak immoral things.

While I understand people will debate what is moral and not, it is not so cut-and-dried right now.

[idwiyo]

4. Whistleblower - someone who exposes wrongdoing within an organisation. Doesn't have to be illegal.

Can be legal and morally wrong.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. You mean like oh...the Pentagon papers

Or in the case of Joe Serpico NYPD operating procedures?

Here I am face palming

[truebluegreen]

6. How many times have you posted this today?

Whether or not Snowden is arrested and put on trial, this is stuff the public needs to know about. How can Congress practice oversight on a program most of them are not briefed on and no one can discuss? How can anyone even determine if the program works, that it is not just a busy-work program for the intelligence/industrial complex, that it is not being or cannot be abused? A secret program with secret rules decided upon by a handful of people in secret? That no one can even challenge because it's, you know, secret.

My senator (Mark Udall) has been waving his arms about this for years. But he couldn't do anything, or really say anything, because National Security. And secrets.

I for one am glad Snowden leaked. I for one will be glad if this results in a REAL discussion, and a rewrite or repeal of an overly-permissive and vague law. I personally don't care if this program is legal, I don't think it should be, or at the very least, nobody should be deciding that in secret.

If that was Snowden's motive, more power to him. I hope he has the fortitude to face the consequences but I'm not going to condemn him for not trusting the government. That's what checks and balances were designed to do. In reality where was the check on this program?

[frylock]

8. i'll go with Daniel Ellsberg's definition of whistleblower if you don't mind..

I just trust him a little more than I trust you.

[jazzimov]

3. Please Google "false equivalency" nt

[Puzzledtraveller]

7. To answer the question

I have been.