we will know more when he goes to trial
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rockSlayer@lemmy.world 4 months agoDid Edward Snowden kill people too?
theodewere@kbin.social 4 months ago
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Why should he go to trial? It’s not going to be a fair trial, and the people have a right to know that the US government is illegally surveilling them. If he truly did directly kill people as a result of his leak, there would already be preliminary evidence.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Right up with you until preliminary evidence.
If they publicly released that his leak got someone in particular killed, they would be admitting publicly that the person killed was an agent. In most cases they would not want to tip their hand on that for fear of exposing other agents.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The class of information that Snowden had was substantially more dangerous. He didn’t just walk out of there with Prism secrets.
There’s a reasonable chance that some of the data Snowden had would have had more dire impacts on remote agents.