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In reply to the discussion: Laura Poitras Dedicates Citizen 4 Oscar To Edward Snowden With Glenn Greenwald By Her Side [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)identifying himself.
He saw how things are now in this country when it comes to Whistle Blowers. They are SILENCED before they can get the information out to the public, smeared, labeled and called Traitors.
Watching the long list of other Whistle Blowers, including Manning who warned about the Maliki Government, and when her superiors wouldn't listen, became a Whistle Blower also, she was tortured and worst of all SILENCED.
It was inevitable that once Democrats demonstrated they were not going to be any better at protecting Whistle Blowers, there WOULD be more, people actually care about this country's slide from democracy, and that they WOULD be forced to seek Political Asylum elsewhere.
We know there is another Whistle Blower talking to Laura Poitras and probably others, right now. I would expect that person to leave the country also and seek political asylum elsewhere.
It was brilliant of Snowden to leave before leaking the information. Had he done it the way Drake did it, he would have been silenced also.
Crimes are being committed against the Constitution of the US and our government is punishing the messengers and protecting the criminals. It is a disgrace.