On: Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA

[sickbeard]

Isn't this the reason why governments react harshly to people like Snowden and Manning? To discourage even worse breaches?

[MichaelRenor → sickbeard]

Clearly the harsh reaction to Snowden has done nothing in this case. I wonder what the reaction would be if Snowden would have been treated like a whistleblower and not a traitor?

[sickbeard → MichaelRenor]

Compared to past infractions Snowden has gotten off relatively easy

[paulmd → sickbeard]

Largely because Snowden is outside the political reach of the US for the moment, and the USG realizes it would be counterproductive to throw a public temper tantrum about it.

If he hadn't fled it's quite likely he would have faced the same kind of treatment as Thomas Drake and William Binney, if not harsher.

[dghughes → paulmd]

> Thomas Drake and William Binney

Someone should write a book or make a movie about those two men the modern equivalent of All the President's Men.