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In reply to the discussion: Edward Snowden is a man without honor. [View all]MineralMan
(146,368 posts)for me, I would take my concerns through the channels legally available to me. Those extend clear to Congress, through members. Without disclosing classified information illegally, I would make my case clearly and thoroughly, in an attempt to start an investigation. Those channels are clearly defined and are available to anyone in the intelligence community, even to a lowly USAF E-4, like I was.
If those channels were exhausted in my efforts, I would make carefully-selected classified material public that demonstrated the problem but that did not cause any dangerous disclosure of information that could harm the country. I would do it openly, publicly, and would be available to anyone, including the authorities. If the case went to court, I'd testify to what I knew.
Questions of constitutionality are complex, as we see constantly in Supreme Court decisions. I'm no legal scholar, by any means, so I'm not comfortable making statements that something is constitutional or not. That's a call for our judicial system, as described in the Constitution itself. We have a system that is described in that document. I honor that system, and that means the entire system, not just the parts I'm comfortable with. When it comes to Constitutional questions, I'm going with the Constitutional method for deciding them. No other method is valid, in my opinion.