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Suppose you are entrusted with highly sensitive data. You've taken an oath and signed contracts saying you won't divulge it. Maybe if you divulge it, it will get someone killed. Whoever gave you your job or worked with you or recommended you will probably have their career ruined. Legally, you can't divulge the information or a jury of your fellow citizens will smilingly send you off to infiltrate prison.
What do you do? You just know you've gotta divulge. You feel it in your big heart. You think it in your big brain. Your inner Einstein tells you how right you are, and your inner Galahad says you are pure as the driven snow. Where do you take your info, oh radiant being? Do you take it to WikiLeaks?
Sure you do. You give it right to Julian Assange. Because that worked out so well for Bradley Manning.
Nope. You do it the Snowden way. You find an unscrupulous quasi-journalist with sales talent, drop your record, and skeeeeedaddle.
WikiLeaks is toast thanks to Snowden.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)And he stole the Easter Bunny's tail!
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Chiefly he set back the myth that only one side does this crap.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)wow.
Initech
(100,080 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)turning to sand.
Initech
(100,080 posts)usGovOwesUs3Trillion
(2,022 posts)there's more than one way to skin a cat.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)bobduca
(1,763 posts)and his father smelled of elderberries!
magellan
(13,257 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)I'm toast.
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)And drops his dirty socks all over the floor.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)I think they had an internal fight over Assange's behavior or personality or tactics, and the dude who invented their submission system deleted all his software and skedaddled
treestar
(82,383 posts)There were other people than Julian working on it.
Reading this thread, what immaturity!