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Originally posted by Cosmic911
I believe it's more mundane and less-clandestine than this. I think it has more to do those pesky legally-binding contracts that promise long jail sentences and thousands of dollar fines for breach and surrendering of government and private pensions. Protecting one's family is a powerful motivator to keep your mouth shut. There's a reason certain people are able to obtain and maintain "insider" jobs, it's because they can keep their mouths shut.
Originally posted by ahnggk
Originally posted by Cosmic911
I believe it's more mundane and less-clandestine than this. I think it has more to do those pesky legally-binding contracts that promise long jail sentences and thousands of dollar fines for breach and surrendering of government and private pensions. Protecting one's family is a powerful motivator to keep your mouth shut. There's a reason certain people are able to obtain and maintain "insider" jobs, it's because they can keep their mouths shut.
It's also possible that the secret being kept is so profoundly evil that the whistleblowers decided to risk it all to probably save a much greater number of lives.
Originally posted by Cosmic911
reply to post by ahnggk
I believe it's more mundane and less-clandestine than this. I think it has more to do those pesky legally-binding contracts that promise long jail sentences and thousands of dollar fines for breach and surrendering of government and private pensions. Protecting one's family is a powerful motivator to keep your mouth shut. There's a reason certain people are able to obtain and maintain "insider" jobs, it's because they can keep their mouths shut.
Originally posted by MyHappyDogShiner
Snowden is a rock star.
Originally posted by alienreality
reply to post by Druscilla
From what I have learned since working with navy personnel in the past, they actually do have people watching anyone who has a top secret compartmentalized type of clearance.. The tap phones and the whole ball of wax... They trust who they hire, but they watch just to make sure.. They are expertly trained in psychology and other mental disciplines to detect any sort of behavioral issues in TS clearance holders..
This is what some insiders have told me, whether or not it is still happening, I don't know for sure..
Those watcher types are senior level officers usually and fairly well trusted from having zero problems in a long career of dedication to their superiors.. Sometimes they are low level enlisted with a way higher clearance than their boss..edit on 21-7-2013 by alienreality because: add
Originally posted by MyHappyDogShiner
Occasionally one must be sacrificed to cover up the fact that nobody is telling any truths that will be of any consequence.
And the sacrificed one gets flown off to a newly forming capitalist society to pretend asylum, but goes and gets rich on his celebrity status and disappears.
Snowden is a rock star.