Snowden set back WikiLeaks

[gulliver]

Suppose you are entrusted with highly sensitive data. You've taken an oath and signed contracts saying you won't divulge it. Maybe if you divulge it, it will get someone killed. Whoever gave you your job or worked with you or recommended you will probably have their career ruined. Legally, you can't divulge the information or a jury of your fellow citizens will smilingly send you off to infiltrate prison.

What do you do? You just know you've gotta divulge. You feel it in your big heart. You think it in your big brain. Your inner Einstein tells you how right you are, and your inner Galahad says you are pure as the driven snow. Where do you take your info, oh radiant being? Do you take it to WikiLeaks?

Sure you do. You give it right to Julian Assange. Because that worked out so well for Bradley Manning.

Nope. You do it the Snowden way. You find an unscrupulous quasi-journalist with sales talent, drop your record, and skeeeeedaddle.

WikiLeaks is toast thanks to Snowden.

[grasswire]

1. he took away my birthday, too!

And he stole the Easter Bunny's tail!

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. He set back all kinds of things

Chiefly he set back the myth that only one side does this crap.

[Whisp]

4. did you really believe that?

wow.

[Initech]

3. He knows the location of the Ark of the Covenant!

[Baitball Blogger]

11. And he's the only one who can look at the scrolls without

turning to sand.

[Initech]

13. He met Manti Teo's internet girlfriend before she died.

[usGovOwesUs3Trillion]

5. Just shows...

there's more than one way to skin a cat.

[morningfog]

6. Damn, civil rights, wikileaks, progress, humanity. Is there anything this guy can't set back?

[bobduca]

7. This Just In, Snowden's mother was a Hamster

and his father smelled of elderberries!

[magellan]

8. Before Snowden, I'll bet you said the same of Manning. n/t

[Luminous Animal]

9. My hair went gray from the shock. THE SHOCK, I TELLS YA!

I'm toast.

[MNBrewer]

10. He set back the timing of when my iris bloom, too.

[scarletwoman]

12. I hear he leaves the toilet seat up, too.

And drops his dirty socks all over the floor.

[struggle4progress]

14. Wikileaks hasn't actually leaked anything for several years now

I think they had an internal fight over Assange's behavior or personality or tactics, and the dude who invented their submission system deleted all his software and skedaddled

[treestar]

15. Does Wikileaks still exist?

There were other people than Julian working on it.

Reading this thread, what immaturity!