Who’s leaking more: Snowden or the government condemning him?

[bemildred]

In the month since the Guardian first started reporting on the surveillance documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the government has taken to the media to condemn his leaks and insist he is flagrantly violating the law. To prove this, the government has been incessantly leaking information itself.

Huffington Post’s Michael Calderone extensively detailed this week’s NSA media counteroffensive against Snowden, as officials have tried to explain — anonymously and without real proof — that Snowden’s leaks have hurt national security. On Wednesday, intelligence officials described to ABC News, Washington Post, Reuters, and AP how terrorists are allegedly “changing their tactics” now that they’ve been tipped off the U.S. is monitoring the Internet.

Essentially, the government leaked a bunch of classified information in an attempt to prove leaking classified information is dangerous.

In addition, unnamed government sources alleged in the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN that both China and Russia drained Snowden’s computers, without any evidence they had done so. As Calderone noted, “it’s possible that officials may be proven correct, and that the leaked NSA documents did fall into the hands of foreign governments. But…there’s no evidence he has willingly or unwillingly provided all the documents obtained to the Chinese and Russians.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/28/whos_leaking_more_snowden_or_the_government_condemning_him/

[Thinkingabout]

1. Was Snowden's espionage authorized by those in charge of NSA? The NSA can put out whatever

information they want, Snowden was not in position to make decisions as to what would be released. He stole the files and even if the NSA releases the same files Snowden has stolen it would still be different. You should not be stealing from anyone, it is not acceptable.
It was common knowledge the phone call records was being collected and in your wildest imagination to even think there are enough workers to listen to every phone call which is placed everyday. Employees has access to communications everyday but it seems only a few are revealing the information. If those who are concerned about their information being collected should be more concerned about the information being put out for anyone to look into. Those guilty should pay the price for their crimes.