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In reply to the discussion: I'm getting really sick of the whole "Comrade Eddie" BS from some [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)Snowden didn't do a data dump the way even Manning did. And according to Greenwald, he was extremely concerned that the data be handled carefully and used in exactly the way it has been.
There is no mega-file on the Internet where you can go and read it all.
As far as speculating that someone else could get something and do something else with it, that's all it is. You could just as easily speculate that if the data was that easy to steal, someone other than Snowden could and would have done something far worse with it.
Edit: I did notice the thing at the end trying to characterize the leak as "stealing." Because ... it was copied before it was leaked? Okay. Did Ellsberg make copies? Did Drake? So ... that was also just "theft? "
Not a good argument.