At this point the Snowden fan club has a lot of egg on their faces.

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47. Ask Sibel Edmonds why this DOES NOT WORK! "State Secrets Privilege" ran her life!

The problem is our CORRUPT government with members of both parties being a part of this faction are NOT protecting security whistleblowers at all (even if they have generic "whistleblowers" bills they pass that always have an exemption for security whistleblowers).

When faced with that, what do those who really want to voice their conscience of what is being done wrong to the American people do? Sibel Edmonds TRIED for many years to alert us to wrongdoing of the country and she was pushed in to the corner. Bradley Manning was put in to prison with brutal treatment in solitary confinement for over a year without being charged for his efforts. Can you blame Snowden for trying this avenue when the PTB have shut everything else down to him?

What has he had to gain from this? Is he rich? His girlfriend on her blog was talking about how she was in tears when he announced this and that he'd left. That man was making sacrifices for what he felt was the right thing to do. If he'd gone to a friendly country, the U.S. would have probably found a way to get him out of those countries through extradition or other means that people like Julian Assange (who wasn't even a government employee, but arguably the press), was lucky to avoid.

We should be ANGRY at our government that there is no options for conscientious employees of our government to have channels to fix a broken system when they see it. It's why our country is in the mess we are in and involved in so many war actions that we shouldn't be in now.