> Former program operatives previously told Reuters they believed they were following the law because superiors promised them the U.S. government had approved the work.
Absolute horseshit. This is 100% a loophole to give them some flimsy plausible deniability. If the NSA approves they should have confirmed with the actual NSA.
Looks like the whistleblower wasn't charged, which is good, though you still have to be a pretty shitty person to go work on targeting journalists and dissidents in the first place. I suspect she didn't have moral qualms as much as she realized how much trouble she'd get in unless she came clean.
I'm interested to learn how exactly any of this is legal. Isn't it illegal for Americans to hack anyone, regardless of where you live? Like could I really go to Russia and openly hack Ukraine as an American and not get charged when I come back to the US?
Are you seriously gatekeeping the whistleblower? Like they did the right thing, but you can maybe imagine they weren't pure enough for you and therefore shitty?
OK let me do that to you:
You are commenting some good things, but i suspect you aren't doing it because you believe it, but rather you want some sweet karma. Therefore you are shitty human being. Feel shame person I've never interacted with before and have no other knowledge of.
(Maybe check out the Darknet Diaries episode linked in the comments here and learn about the situation a bit before declaring the motives of a person you admit having no knowledge of.)
