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Originally Posted by regular.joe

Does every one not realize that there were other avenues of approach for these two rather than sell or give this information to the world at large?

Did you forget lessons of Watergate, Pentagon Papers, et al? Did you ignore the larger criminals who violated their job and our trust by excercising unrestricted violations of Federal and Constitutional laws? Snowden is a little guy. Who are these people so corrupt as to now even attack or mistrust their strongest supporter in the Senate? People with such power who are also paranoid are somehow good?

America has a long history of people violating laws in order to protect American freedoms. Or did you forget Nixon intentionally tried to subvert the government of the US and the principles upon what makes democracy work? Had so many little people not violated rules and laws, then Nixon and his anti-American cronies would have gotten away with it ... and more.

If you think only laws matter, then you forget about so many criminals in American history including Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, and Hamilton who even conspired with the enemy (The French) to create principles we now worship.

Why was so much of what Nixon did classified? Why were the entire Pentagon Papers classified? Learn what is more important than a few laws. We have, potentially, a greatest threat to the principles of the US by people who can and do manipulate and destroy lives ... as J Edgar Hoover did. What he did also was classified. How many avenues of approach existed in that case?