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[Tortmaster]

34. Just about everything in your post is misleading.

Or wrong. James Clapper would never go to jail for perjury because he didn't commit perjury. Look up the law. Congress was briefed at least two times each year about all the NSA data gathering programs. Every Senator in that room had been briefed, repeatedly, about the programs, and they all voted up or down on them.

As for the whistleblowing protections, why do you even bring them up? Snowden made no attempt to contact Senator Wyden, any other Member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, any Members of the House Committee, the Inspector General or anyone else described in the Whistleblower regulations.

Snowden proved two things: (1) Letting anyone decide what secrets to divulge to the public is a dangerously stupid idea that stinks of anarchy run amok, (which is why we have Whistleblower procedures enacted by our elected representatives); and,

(2) A trained spy (his claim) given months to find incriminating information, who also had unfettered access to NSA computers with Admin privileges, discovered nothing we didn't know about since 2006.