Previous NSA Leakers, Thomas Drake And Mark Klein, Speak Out In Defense Of Ed Snowden

[William deB. Mills]

5. Congressional Campaign to Punish Clapper for His Perjury

It took four whistle-blowers a decade to crack open the apparent official-media conspiracy of silence about NSA spying on Americans. But now suddenly, evidently because of the blatantly vicious official mistreatment of Manning and Snowden (talk about picking up a stone to drop it on your own foot!), it has become acceptable in US society to discuss fundamental principles of democracy - e.g., whether or not a bunch of politicians have the right to sneak into a smoke-filled room to "reinterpret" US law to their own convenience and undermine Constitutional guarantees of civil liberties.

But to get to the point - Clapper's perjury before Congress has now actually made some Congressmen angry! See Democracy Now (where one can actually find real news): http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/2/reps_conyers_massie_on_bipartisan_campaign. Congressmen are starting a campaign to punish Clapper for committing perjury.

The other side of the "make Snowden a hero" coin is to bring to fire and bring to trial officials who abused power.

I can't believe that we actually have a few representatives in Congress with sufficient integrity and self-respect to resent being lied to. My hat is off to Manning, Snowden, Drake, Weibe, Binney.