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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday May 23 2016, @07:25PM
You're rather missing the point here: if someone walked into your biology classroom and started shouting about creationism at the top of his lungs, is it flamebait to point out how he's wrong, for the sake of the more or less captive audience exposed to it? The entire point of an open forum like this is to allow that kind of exchange.
And it seems you don't understand the definition of stalker. I had a stalker once, an insane security guard from Kenosha who had an obsession with GitS's Laughing Man character. He was constantly sending me harassing messages with burner email addresses, portscanning my router (wt actual f...) and trying to break into my social media accounts. I don't go looking for Runaway's posts specifically, but if one pops up and it's full of shit, I point it out. If you've seen our history you'll notice I've actually upmodded several of his posts in the past.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by tibman on Monday May 23 2016, @07:53PM
I don't think anyone would have an issue if that's what you did. But it was mostly just name calling. Other people looking in who have no context to your relationship with Runway will view you as a crazy person (and mod you as such). You lost the high-ground.
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23 2016, @08:06PM
if someone walked into your biology classroom
I'll try to use your classroom analogy:
This comment section is a history classroom.
You apparently have a biology class with Runaway1956 and he/she says all kinds of shit that pisses you off.
Now, you walk into my history class and shout at one of my classmates after he/she made an on-topic comment:
You sound like a dirty stinkin' Muslim atheist gay Jew terr'ist illegal Ay-rab job-stealin' welfare-moochin' lazy immigrant refugee rapist Mexican 'Murrica-hater
You are interfering with my history class and tell me that it is for my own good. I say, "No, thanks. How about you just take things outside or wait until your biology class."