re: #148 Gus

So. This happened.

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What the fuckety fuck? So, a real NSA agent is identified, and this person’s life as he or she knew it is now over. Self and family at great risk now.

This is why amateur thieves like Snowden and agenda-driven douches like Greenwald and Poitras should not have possession of classified documents. They are reckless and should be held accountable, not celebrated. And I say this as someone who believes that govt should be as transparent and responsible to its citizens as possible. But some things should be kept out of the wrong hands—like theirs.

This is infuriating and who knows where it will lead?

Rank amateurs, all of them. And I’m pissed, because now I feel less safe, for myself and my family. The future is screwed if people like this are allowed to get away with their crimes. To allow a few people with criminal intent to get away with these kinds of cyber-crimes is just as reckless as allowing terrorists to get away with theirs, maybe worse in some respects.

If I steal money from my employer, I go to jail for embezzlement. What Snowden stole was far more valuable than that money would be. He gets no credit from me for anything. Changes to the NSA were already in the pipeline—Snowden and his gang of miscreants just couldn’t wait for the process. Their shallow thinking and narcissism took over, as it often does with evangelically-minded crusaders.