U.S. Gov has stopped having legitimate authority over its people, by all rights, we’re indistinguishable from an oppressed nation at this point.
The argument of his detractors is that he could simply have gone to his superiors and they would have fixed the problem. Nonsense. Nothing would have happened and he would have been drummed out of his job.
The “whistle blower” statutes are never enforced and those who try inevitably lose their jobs or bankrupted.
The ones who defend this surveillance would feel a whole lot differently if the shoe was on the other foot; their foot. Our government is out of control. Period.