Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras Win Truth-Telling Award

An anonymous reader writes with news that Snowden has received the Ridenhour Truth-Telling award. From the announcement: "We have selected Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras for their work in exposing the NSA's illegal and unconstitutional bulk collection of the communications of millions of people living in the United States. Their act of courage was undertaken at great personal risk and has sparked a critical and transformative debate about mass surveillance in a country where privacy is considered a constitutional right." The award will be presented at the National Press Club. It is hoped that Snowden and Poitras will be able to appear remotely (Poitras is in effective exile in Berlin). In related news, the ACLU has indexed all publicly released documented leaked by Snowden. You can even full-text search them.

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Re:Which just goes to show

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The NSA spying on American's is wrong and should be called out.

The NSA spying on the rest of the world IS DOING THIER FUCKING JOB.

If you're too naive to understand how politics work and think that our 'allies' aren't trying to do the same then you're just ignorant and small-minded, but still wrong.

Snowden could have called them out on what was wrong, and he would have been a hero.

What he did was steal a bunch of shit and spew it to the first people he could hand it off to, only a small portion of which was actually criminal and wrong.

No doubt, they did break the law (constitution), but that doesn't justify releasing all the other crap that was ENTIRELY LEGAL AND WHAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING. That made him a traitor.

I'm sorry if you can't make distinctions between different things, you should work on that. One good thing does not magically negate one bad thing.