06-18-2018, 12:36 PM
(06-18-2018, 12:32 PM)Millhouse Wrote: It's like what Snowden leaked. Even though the NSA/CIA was spying & collecting data on everyone, and could spy on anyone at will with a secret FISA warrant, it was technically legal what they were doing.
However Snowden believed it was unethical on what they were doing and exposed it, and then was branded as a traitor and Obama even referred to him as a 29 year old hacker. Which goes to what was mentioned above, as some things are leaked for good public image, but Snowden was demonized because it hurt Obama's and others public image.
Maybe one of the things we really ought to be looking at (which some nat sec geeks I follow have been saying) is how information is classified. That maybe we over-classify too many things, which creates a lot of these problems. That a lot of things that are classified broadly aren't a threat to our national security and that we should be more selective and targeted with the classification of information.
We are supposed to be a government of, by, and for the people, after all. Shouldn't that mean that openness of information should be the rule rather than the exception?
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
