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None of the whistleblowers persecuted by the Obama administration as part of its unprecedented attack on whistleblowers has done any of that: not one of them. Nor have those who are responsible for these current disclosures.

They did not act with any self-interest in mind. The opposite is true: they undertook great personal risk and sacrifice for one overarching reason: to make their fellow citizens aware of what their government is doing in the dark. Their objective is to educate, to democratize, to create accountability for those in power.

The people who do this are heroes. They are the embodiment of heroism.

According to Fox News Reporter Rosen, his motive in exposing US intelligence about North Korea was to get a scoop ahead of his rivals.  I guess in Greenwald Land, that counts as heroism, and I suspect we are absolutely forbidden from imagining that a reporter from the Glorious Roger Aisles Truth TV could have any ulterior political motive. No, like Glenn Greenwald himself, they are HEROES, practically WOLVERINES OF LIBERTY.  His source, Mr. Kim, told that FBI that he was kind of hoping for a think tank job as a reward. HE-effing-ROIC. Working in a think tank, especially one Fox News could get you into would be hard time indeed. And I mean, exposing US intelligence work against the insane nuclear state of North Korea will  Democratize the US so much that we won’t even care when the Supreme Court throws out the Voting Rights Act.  And then there’s the AP scoop which aborted US espionage against the peace loving people of AQAP.  That’s just like the Pentagon Papers, except that it didn’t expose government misconduct, was not a key contribution to a vital public debate, and did endanger US government employees. Otherwise it’s exactly the same except even more heroic.