On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 02:20:31 +0100 rysiek <rysiek@hackerspace.pl> wrote:
How many millions of employees does the US govt have? How many have betrayed it? Off the top of my head I can think of TWO. Snowden, exiled in Russia (wha ha ha*) and Manning, in jail.
Well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_whistleblowers
Well, your wikipedia link doesn't counter anything I said. Furthermore, I browsed a few of the links and that's not a list of *government* whistleblowers - there are also people from the 'private' sector, for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Peeno Then, there there's old stuff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Marchetti "Marchetti published books critical of the CIA with author John D. Marks. The books included, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (1973).[4] Before this book was published, the CIA demanded that Marchetti remove 399 passages, but Marchetti resisted and only 168 passages were censored. " lol - so 'only' 168 - and that actually says nothing about what the guy published. Maybe it was all irrelevant nonsense anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Whitehurst "was a Supervisory Special Agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory from 1986 to 1998, where he went public as a whistleblower to bring attention to procedural errors and misconduct." Doesn't sound too impressive. I'm not going to waste any more time reviewing your list. I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't check a single link. All in all there are 150 people in that list, covering both the public and 'private' sector for 50 or more years. So, out of probably millions of people having access to compromising information you have 150 whistleblowers? That's of course to be expected from a fascist society like the US. J.