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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/how-pentagon-punished-nsa-whistleblowers
[There] is another man whose story has never been told before, who is speaking out publicly for the first time here. His name is John Crane, and he was a senior official in the Department of Defense who fought to provide fair treatment for whistleblowers such as Thomas Drake – until Crane himself was forced out of his job and became a whistleblower as well. His testimony reveals a crucial new chapter in the Snowden story – and Crane's failed battle to protect earlier whistleblowers should now make it very clear that Snowden had good reasons to go public with his revelations.
During dozens of hours of interviews, Crane told me how senior Defense Department officials repeatedly broke the law to persecute Drake. First, he alleged, they revealed Drake's identity to the Justice Department; then they withheld (and perhaps destroyed) evidence after Drake was indicted; finally, they lied about all this to a federal judge. The supreme irony? In their zeal to punish Drake, these Pentagon officials unwittingly taught Snowden how to evade their clutches when the 29-year-old NSA contract employee blew the whistle himself.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday May 23 2016, @05:06AM
...what the fuck? Are you referring to my attempts to reason with Kurenai or something?
Seriously, what the hell was that little cranium-shart just now about? Sounds like some kind of overemotional deflecting tactic to me. Almost as if you don't like it when someone points out that you are, as a paleocon, neither flesh nor fowl in today's political world, yet STILL have some of the worst traits of the people you claim to be above...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 23 2016, @05:40AM
One or both of us is entirely out of touch with reality. Scroll up and read your own post.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by mhajicek on Monday May 23 2016, @05:53AM
Both. [duck]
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2016, @09:20AM
hey fuck you i love ducks!