A lengthy article from another NSA Whistleblower... about Snowden

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/17/opinion/wiebe-snowden-amnesty/index.html

This opinion piece is from J. Kirk Wiebe.  

J. Kirk Wiebe is retired from the National Security Agency, where he worked for more than 32 years. He received the NSA's second highest award, the Meritorious Civilian Service Award; the Director of CIA's Meritorious Unit Award; and a Letter of Commendation from the secretary of the Air Force, among other awards. He was an NSA whistleblower on matters of privacy involving massive electronic surveillance.

This whistleblower tried to make his complaint through channels and he... well, I'll use his own words.

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Unfortunately, while federal law protects whistleblowers who work in other government sectors from reprisals for truth-telling and have paths for reporting wrongdoing and mismanagement, those who work in intelligence are expressly denied such rights. When NSA employees Bill Binney, Tom Drake, Diane Roark and I submitted a formal complaint about mismanagement at the agency, the government's response on July 26, 2007, was to send the FBI to raid our homes, searching them for seven hours and seizing our computers, phones and other digital media. We are just now getting our property back after having successfully sued the government in December 2012.

The government even indicted Tom Drake, although it dropped its criminal charges in the case against him. Still, for the five of us, it was the equivalent of a punch in the face and a warning to other would-be "truth-tellers" not to report wrongful government activities or the government will come after you.

His opinion piece is pro-Snowden, so those of you that think he is a traitor, you don't have to read the opinion piece. I personally think it is well written and agree mostly with what he says.

Eric wrote:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/17/opinion/wiebe-snowden-amnesty/index.html

This opinion piece is from J. Kirk Wiebe.  

J. Kirk Wiebe is retired from the National Security Agency, where he worked for more than 32 years. He received the NSA's second highest award, the Meritorious Civilian Service Award; the Director of CIA's Meritorious Unit Award; and a Letter of Commendation from the secretary of the Air Force, among other awards. He was an NSA whistleblower on matters of privacy involving massive electronic surveillance.

This whistleblower tried to make his complaint through channels and he... well, I'll use his own words.

Quote :

Unfortunately, while federal law protects whistleblowers who work in other government sectors from reprisals for truth-telling and have paths for reporting wrongdoing and mismanagement, those who work in intelligence are expressly denied such rights. When NSA employees Bill Binney, Tom Drake, Diane Roark and I submitted a formal complaint about mismanagement at the agency, the government's response on July 26, 2007, was to send the FBI to raid our homes, searching them for seven hours and seizing our computers, phones and other digital media. We are just now getting our property back after having successfully sued the government in December 2012.

The government even indicted Tom Drake, although it dropped its criminal charges in the case against him. Still, for the five of us, it was the equivalent of a punch in the face and a warning to other would-be "truth-tellers" not to report wrongful government activities or the government will come after you.

His opinion piece is pro-Snowden, so those of you that think he is a traitor, you don't have to read the opinion piece.  I personally think it is well written and agree mostly with what he says.

Snowden became a traitor to this nation the minute he left his country and sold out to foreign nations....If his best interest was to bring attention to an injustice/wrongdoing there were certainly better avenues...

Where? If you read the article, you would understand what happens to you if you try to go through "better avenues".