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WHISTLEBLOWER COMES CLEAN: ‘I’VE DONE NOTHING WRONG’:

This kid should be called a national hero for having the backbone for spilling the beans on the corrupt government and their Pearl Harbor tactics in the NSA debacle.

 
I never did care for the term “whistle blower” it has a “fink” like connotation to its sound. I think that some of these people that have stepped forward should be celebrated as heroes for their guts to let it be known to the public just what kind of backdoor dealings are going on in government and its secret, no-consequences good old boys clubs.

The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA’s history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows.

This may go down as one of the most significant leaks in US political history as Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.

Snowden will go down in history as one of America’s most consequential whistleblowers, alongside Daniel Ellsberg and Bradley Manning. He is responsible for handing over material from one of the world’s most secretive organizations – the NSA.
In a note accompanying the first set of documents he provided, he wrote: “I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions,” but “I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.”

The saddest part of this whole scenario is that “the powers to be” who are the perpetrators in this instance, that are eventually going to the gallows for what they pulled, are going to discredit this kid as a criminal for his honesty and love of country. Let us hope that he is not tarred and feathered for his veracity and integrity.