Snowden Used Cheap, Readily Available 'Web Crawler' Software to Collect NSA Files

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8. I suppose that I should be flattered that you, barely two hours after registering here,

are interested in my prior views of Snowden

But my post #6 makes no reference to anything I might have said previously regarding Snowden, does not depend upon anything I might have said previously regarding Snowden, and so can be understood without any knowledge of anything I might have said previously regarding Snowden: it provides a comparison of the result, of a simple calculation, to numbers provided in the article linked by the OP

To state just one point more clearly for your benefit, the mass downloading of unread documents, and the transfer of those unread documents to third-parties, does not meet any standard definition of "whistle-blowing"

I should think it more courteous of you, were you to refrain from putting words in my mouth, as I am quite able to express my actual views clearly by myself, without the distortions introduced by your misreadings (or perhaps ideologically-motivated misrepresentations) of my text. If you read my #6 carefully, you will find that words such as "traitor" do not appear therein: the crime "treason" is, in fact, defined in Article III Section 3 Paragraph 1 of the Constitution, which also limits the conditions under which conviction for that crime may occur; the crime is codified at 18 USC 2381, incorporating the Constitutional language; and to my knowledge the criminal complaint against Snowden involves violation of 18 USC 641, 18 USC 793(d), and 18 USC 798(a)(3) but does not include violation of 18 USC 2381