The US Intelligence Community has a Third Leaker

A third whistleblower &#x2F; hero.<p>How come none in the government is charged for the multitude of illegal things that has been revealed? But there is still the insistency of labeling these people as &#x27;leakers&#x27; instead of something more appropriate like &#x27;hero&#x27; or &#x27;whistleblower&#x27;.

President Obama today:<p><i>&quot;If you blow the whistle on an unethical practice or bring a problem to the attention of higher-ups, you should be thanked. You should be protected for doing the right thing&quot;</i>

Quite frankly, this is karma. When you are treating your own civilians and allies as criminals and storing that information in a database for your own perusal and you employ thousands of direct and indirect (contractors) staff, you&#x27;re bound to end up with leaks.<p>I think the whole PRISM thing Snowden exposed is only one thing, I don&#x27;t doubt there are other programs just as secretive shocking and sickening lurking around at the NSA waiting to be leaked. Time for some more leakers to step up and raise the curtain hiding the machine.

When an organization gets too big, it is statistically likely there will be leaks.<p>I think the US has forgotten or willfully ignored the lessons learned from the past 100 years of espionage.

One of these days one of these &quot;leakers&quot; will actually be US or foreign spy agency achieving a strategic advantage by &quot;leaking&quot; information.

Hopefully more will be inspired by Daniel Ellsberg recent talk at HOPE X and and his call for action for more &quot;real patriots&quot; to do their duty and blow the whistle on abuses and law breaking.

If the government were to figure out who this is, perhaps through the process of elimination and internal spying, my bet is that we would never hear about it and that the person would disappear silently to a CIA operated Polish prison.

I think Schneier is seriously discounting the magic document theory as it pertains to the 2nd and possibly 3rd leakers.

Good. Step up number 4. You number has been called.<p>I realise this is flippant, but in all honesty I believe we are at an impasse, something between 1000 times worse than George Orwell ever imagined and a balance between security and the freedom to think without prejudice.<p>Our problem is that there comes a point where so much resources have been committed to invading the privacy of the public that there is no turning back.<p>So, number 4. Step forward and take your place in history.

Did we all read the same article...Where is the evidence of a third leaker?