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While it's certainly interesting, I don't think this excerpt from his book explains at all why he became a whistleblower.


Sure it does.

> Over the course of my career, it became increasingly difficult for me to ask these questions about the technologies I was responsible for and not about my country. And it became increasingly frustrating to me that I was able to repair the former but not the latter.

He was trying to repair our government by judicious application of sunshine.


The thing you quoted does not say what you say it says.

I think we agree on why Snowden blew the whistle, I just don't think it says that in the excerpt.


Imagine how many tried moonshine before that.


There is a reason alcoholism was/is rampant in many three letters, but is quietly ignored.




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