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In reply to the discussion: Edward Snowden is a man without honor. [View all]MineralMan
(146,368 posts)offer with the NSA when my USAF enlistment ran out, and left. Had I discovered information I felt that had to be released, I would have begun with the accepted ways to reveal that information outside of normal channels. Even in the late 1960s, the options existed for reporting such things, including taking the report to any Congress member.
I would not have left the country and given that information to the media and to foreign governments. I left because I did not like the work that was potentially being done by that agency. It was not a line of work I would have been comfortable with.
Edward Snowden had very limited access, which is why what he has presented to the public are little more than briefing documents used to educate new NSA employees and contract employees to the agency. I saw similar documents when I began working there while in the USAF, but on different subjects at the time.