Snowden: I never gave any information to Chinese or Russian governments

[NuclearDem]

62. When the law is being used to intimidate people...

...from exposing war crimes and civil right violations, it absolutely is immoral. The Plame leak was a vindictive attack on one of Bush's critics, not even remotely similar to the Pentagon Papers, Iraq War logs, or PRISM leaks.

Whisteblower protection at the Federal level in no way guarantees the information will be made public. In fact, most organizations handle the problem in-house; the public is never the wiser. For that reason, it's essentially a system of zero accountability. And even if the IG pursues a matter, very often it only takes cases about FWA--war crimes and civil rights violations tend to get swept under the rug.

The system is corrupt, and whether you like Snowden or not, the avenue he chose was the only one that was ever going to get anything done.