[trebb]

"So, why even bring it up? If you can't talk about it. If you can't reveal more? Why leave such a broad opening for endless speculation? Oh, because it grabs headlines." Or because she is trying to tell what she can without being destroyed by the Regime?

Exactly - nobody (especially those who call him a traitor) seems to realize that there is no "legal" way to get such information out into the public without filtering it through the bureaucracy that has more reasons (like self defense from the truth) to sweep it under the rug. When one gets a security clearance, one signs a non-disclosure agreement that can be used as a basis for prosecution with malice. The signed agreements are archived for at least 50 years. The second that anyone starts making noises like he has, they will be taken into custody for "debriefings" and will never be allowed to get the story out. Catch 22 at its finest.

[OneWingedShark]

When one gets a security clearance, one signs a non-disclosure agreement that can be used as a basis for prosecution with malice.

And is an [non-disclosure] agreement binding upon a conspiracy to commit murder? Howe about felonies? Guess what: this spying is a felony-class law violation, in more ways than one.

So then — is Snowden bound by his NDA?