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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: 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."