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Originally Posted by trevesty
so what have you done lately to promote government transparency, privacy rights, & human rights?
nothing?
oh.
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this is not about me, dumbass, i didn't rip a bunch of documents and claim i'm a human rights activists claiming all sorts of proof of abuses while i keep most of those docs to myself.
but since you are trying to make it about me, i'll clear that up for you-
i can think in complex terms, i can separate the act of espionage from the data *revealed*.
those are 2 separate events and should be treated as such, you are not old enough or smart enough to sort that out for yourself so you go with what the media tells you, that's cool, just don't try and switch that lack of understanding around to me.
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Originally Posted by - Jesus Christ -
Yea... to keep himself from being locked in a cell naked for months on end (TORTURE) like bradley manning or the kid who made a joke in league of legends.
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you mean like thomas drake, the nsa leaker who stole documents and had the courage to stand behind his actions.
you mean this guy right?
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Thomas Andrews Drake (born 1957) is a former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), a decorated United States Air Force and United States Navy veteran, and a whistleblower. In 2010 the government alleged that Drake 'mishandled' documents, one of the few such Espionage Act cases in U.S. history. Drake's defenders claim that he was instead being persecuted for challenging the Trailblazer Project.
He is the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling and co-recipient of the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award.
On June 9, 2011, all 10 original charges against him were dropped. Drake rejected several deals because he refused to "plea bargain with the truth". He eventually pled to one misdemeanor count for exceeding authorized use of a computer;[10] Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project, who helped represent him, called it an act of "civil disobedience."
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