““Rahul Sagar, a professor at Princeton, has defined these well in his new book Secrets and Leaks:73 First, a whistleblower must have clear and convincing evidence of abuse. Second, releasing the information must not pose a disproportionate threat to public safety. Third, the information leaked must be as limited in scope and scale as possible. Snowden failed all three of these criteria. He has not shown systematic abuse, only secrecy and mistakes. He has harmed and weakened his country and its allies (indeed, for some Snowdenistas, this is a stated aim). He has stolen far more information than was necessary to make the case he purports to want to make. Why?””
![“A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the history of the United States. But that's not his goal. [His] objective is to expose software that people around the world use without knowing what they are exposing…” quote by Glenn Greenwald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cba/glenn-greenwald-1215_around-the-world_a-snowden-has-enough-information-to-caus_1776965.jpg)
![“Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be…” quote by Glenn Greenwald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/167/glenn-greenwald-1215_begging_snowden-has-enough-sic-information-to-ca_2136813.jpg)
