re: #7 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Sure, Gates mildly misspoke when he endorsed ‘civil disobedience’ but said that breaking the law wasn’t good. But it’s obvious in context what he meant by it, that it was the massive and indiscriminate leaking that Snowden did that was the problem, the irresponsible way he went about it.

To be even more specific, you could argue that “civil disobedience” usually implies that you allow yourself to be arrested and charged, if and when you break the law.