When you take a job like that, you sign your life away. They tell you repeatedly that disclosing information is treason. Retraining every so often so you don't forget, etc. It is a binding contract between you and the USG for the rest of your life.
Why do I feel the urge to go home and watch _Downfall_?
There could have been other ways he handled it,
Enlighten me on those other ways he could have revealed what he revealed.
but he committed treason on so many different levels,
What levels are those? Daniel Ellsberg was likewise charged under the Espionage Act, but today walks the streets of the USA without a tracking bracelet. I hope that some day in the future Snowden will get to walk the streets of the USA. Without an ankle bracelet, even.
there is no way he should be treated as a saint.
I guess that's true. He's embarrassed a lot of people who might even believe that they mean well. And the Vatican hasn't OK'd the second miracle.
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