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randome

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5. You mean 'a' whistleblower, not 'another' whistleblower.

Reply to quinnox (Original post)

Mon Aug 19, 2013, 11:02 AM

Aug 2013

Snowden is no whistleblower.
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What would be sweet and ironic is if now another NSA whistle-blower, pissed off at the latest news, [View all] quinnox Aug 2013 OP

The persecution of Snowden & Manning is designed to prevent exactly this eventuality. Jackpine Radical Aug 2013 #1

Yep, agreed, which is why it would be so ironic quinnox Aug 2013 #2

AKA: Demonstration Project (see Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson) - nt HardTimes99 Aug 2013 #3

On a different ironic front: were the Brazilian government to declare all British diplomatic HardTimes99 Aug 2013 #4

You mean 'a' whistleblower, not 'another' whistleblower. randome Aug 2013 #5

wrong quinnox Aug 2013 #6

Your opinion is noted Hydra Aug 2013 #8

It is right in our faces yet some choose not to see KurtNYC Aug 2013 #7

Well if the NSA does decide to layoff 90% of its sysadmins Rex Aug 2013 #9

Like this perhaps: Matariki Aug 2013 #10

how would it be ironic? Pretzel_Warrior Aug 2013 #11

well, the irony would be since Greenwald said his lover was detained as an act of intimidation, quinnox Aug 2013 #14

ok. you pass. :D Pretzel_Warrior Aug 2013 #15

good to hear quinnox Aug 2013 #16

That would be sweet Autumn Aug 2013 #12

The NSA house of cards is on increasingly shaky ground. One-two-many whistleblowers in the wings. Tierra_y_Libertad Aug 2013 #13

Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2013 #17