The vast majority of DU supports Snowden's and Greenwald's actions

[JDPriestly]

285. I might agree with you if your assumption that a whistleblower can find

a helpful audience in the Congress or elsewhere were true.

But the experiences described by previous whistleblowers negates your underlying premise -- which is that there was an alternative for Snowden.

Here is (or at least was) a press conference given by some of those who tried before Snowden to warn Americans about the excesses of the NSA (and possibly other agencies') surveillance.

http://new.livestream.com/accuracy/nsa-rebuttal/videos/39824993

One member of the Senate oversight committee tried to get the NSA to admit to its snooping on the private communications of Americans. He was not successful in alerting us to the excesses until Snowden came forward with documents. The order to Verizon shocked me. I will explain to you why in a private DU e-mail.

The record of our government with regard to punishing whistleblowers is appalling. Remember. A whistleblower who disclosed information about Cheney and Bush's torture program, which was probably criminal under international law if our views during WWII still apply, is serving a prison sentence right now.