NSA leaker more a showing about defense contractors lousy security

This man was hired by a contractor. Didn't the contractor think to have him sign an agreement about talking about the government's secrets? How was this such a huge deal when reports about this came out during the Bush Administration?

Bush says he signed NSA wiretap order
Adds he OK'd program more than 30 times, will continue to do so
Saturday, December 17, 2005

President Bush arrives for his radio address in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Saturday.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In acknowledging the message was true, President Bush took aim at the messenger Saturday, saying that a newspaper jeopardized national security by revealing that he authorized wiretaps on U.S. citizens after September 11.

After The New York Times reported, and CNN confirmed, a claim that Bush gave the National Security Agency license to eavesdrop on Americans communicating with people overseas, the president said that his actions were permissible, but that leaking the revelation to the media was illegal read more here

Naturally the media jumped all over this story and once again avoids reporting on things that can make this country better. But, hey, they'd have to actually work for a change. Ok, not all of them. Some of them do actually work hard but most of them are just doing the bungie jump. Would have been more interesting if they actually attempted to figure out how many other defense contractors have such lousy security this could be pulled off?

White House defends surveillance as world digests leaker's motives
By Michael Pearson and Jethro Mullen
CNN
June 10, 2013

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: President open to surveillance changes if public debate leads to consensus, spokesman says
Group begins legal defense fund for self-avowed leaker, Edward Snowden
Snowden outs himself in newspaper article, saying he acted in defense of freedom and privacy
But Rep. Peter King calls him dangerous and "a defector"

Hong Kong (CNN) -- A day after former intelligence worker Edward Snowden outed himself as the man responsible for leaking details of U.S. surveillance programs, White House spokesman Jay Carney defended the administration's stance on the initiatives, calling them a necessary middle way between total privacy and unacceptable threat.

He said President Barack Obama would be willing to consider changes should a national debate show the public wants them. But, he wryly noted, "This is not the manner by which he hoped to have the debate."

Meanwhile, the world continued to digest what Snowden had to say in a Guardian newspaper interview published Sunday about the reasons for leaking the classified information.
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