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Much much more amusing to see how random college drop outs can so deeply compromise national security. Imagine what trouble we'd be in if a motivated nation state tried to get the USA's secrets?



Well, it's not the first time someone told us what the NSA were doing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqN59beaFMI


He sounds like quite a competent, intelligent "college dropout". Do you think him being a "dropout" means much?


Yeah, it's hyperbolic. I was trying to emphasize the difference between a random guy and nation state.

Dropout was also convenient because it applied to both Manning and Snowden.


Exactly the trouble we are in today, because it is nearly guaranteed that this happens?


That's just it. If it has happened, the Chinese or Russians or whoever don't take their discoveries to the press.

You have to assume that US enemies already more than what Snowden knew even before he released it.




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