Hmmmm..... "First of all, let’s dispense with the term - TopicsExpress

Hmmmm..... "First of all, let’s dispense with the term “whistleblower.” Snowden is not a whistleblower, as defined in the False Claims Act, and other laws. Nothing the NSA is doing is illegal. You can make the argument that some of it should be, but that’s a completely separate issue. So far, the NSA operation has been conducted as openly as it can be and still be effective. They have consulted the FISA court on everything, and they have kept Congress informed." "What we found with the documents Snowden revealed was that the NSA is monitoring phone and Internet traffic generally speaking, anonymously, via computer program. Big deal. The best analogy I can think of comes when you put a search term into Google or Bing, and it shows you the top results. In order to get to those results, however, it had to look at every website on the Internet and reject those it found irrelevant. No one SEES the results they reject, but, for a search engine to be effective, it has to have access to pretty much everything. The NSA doesn’t actually have any of your information. It has a list of phone numbers of suspected terrorists, and it’s plugging them into a “search engine” to find out who they talked to. If you’re not talking to terrorists, they’ll never even see your phone number or IP address. Even if you are talking to one, they still don’t know whose phone number it is until they get a warrant and serve it to the phone or Internet company." "That is what Snowden “uncovered.” A completely legal system of surveillance, which is being overseen by FISA and Congress, which is what we said we wanted in 2008, when this program was codified. Now, because some people are pretending to not know this, Snowden is being hailed as a “whistleblower,” which is an insult to other, actual whistleblowers, like the guy who settled a lawsuit against the Department of Labor for $820,000 a few weeks ago, for uncovering the fact that DOL was underreporting workplace injuries. THAT is whistleblowing. Disclosing secret aspects of a program that has been open and above board about its basic operation is not."

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