so all these mofos are on television saying 'string him up'. he's a felon. his felony was revealing the sheer fact that everyone is under surveillance all the time. he didn't reveal the content of anthony kennedy's email; he revealed a fundamental fact about everyone's lives, a ground-level reality. that really is a felony.
if you are opposed to everyone knowing that everyone is under surveillance all the time, i think you really had better think about who you are and what you represent. it's surprisingly easy to become a monster, and you might want to go on a journey of memory, trying to figure out exactly when you turned that corner. reflecting on that moment might show us all something important about how evil gets into the world.
the kinds of arguments they're already giving are obscene: snowden is 'making his own rules,' for example. 'you just can't do that.' no: but it is admirable according to the rules to do evil as the rules demand. i want you telling god that shit later on.
from wikipedia on booz hamilton, the company snowden went back and forth to and from to nsa/cia. squishy totalitarianism; merger of state and corporate sector. correct? snowden is perfectly articulate; he speaks better for himself (and all of us) than anyone else.
Another controversy, related to some of the senior staff of Booz Allen (past and present) and related to its performance on some specific U.S. intelligence agency contracts, was brought to light on January 12, 2007 in an interview conducted by Democracy Now! with Tim Shorrock,[71] an independent investigative journalist, and separately in an article he wrote for the Salon online magazine. Through investigation of Booz Allen employees, Shorrock asserts that there is a sort of revolving-door conflict of interest between Booz Allen and the U.S. government, and between multiple other contractors and the U.S. government in general. Regarding Booz Allen, Shorrock referred to such people as John M. McConnell, R. James Woolsey, Jr., and James R. Clapper, all of whom have gone back and forth between government and industry (Booz Allen in particular), and who may present the appearance that certain government contractors receive undue or unlawful business from the government, and that certain government contractors may exert undue or unlawful influence on government. Shorrock further relates that Booz Allen was a sub-contractor with two programs at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), called Trailblazer and Pioneer Groundbreaker.
he's not less safe by going public, i believe. but he's definitely not safe.
