--but it isn't at all. Try to imagine a situation where you saw wrongdoing as an insider. Try to imagine how it feels to be participating in the huge lie that this is. To trample the public trust. To engage in improper secret intelligence gathering that goes against the constitution. Try to live with yourself.
To reveal what has not, but ought to be revealed (in the opinions of many) is a complex situation. I would say that what the NSA is doing to me without my permission is theft, for example. So it's all in how you look at it. You can find a lot of rationales for improper surveillance in history, more low-tech, but existing. And the same mentality is always there to keep covering it up. This is nothing new but the scope of it certainly is.
Guess you don't believe in whistle-blowing but sometimes it's the only way the truth gets out. 
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