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Snowden: US lets NSA liars go; stops at nothing to bust those who tell the truth

From Wikileaks’ collection of videos from the whistleblowers’ dinner in Moscow to give Edward Snowden the Integrity Award from the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, a bang-on clip explaining the state of play in America’s war on whistleblowing:

It’s led us to a point in our relationship with the government, where we have an executive — a Department of Justice — that’s unwilling to prosecute high officials who lied to Congress and the country on camera, but they’ll stop at nothing to persecute someone who told them the truth. And that’s a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

Snowden: DOJ Won’t Prosecute Official For Lying, But Will Stop At Nothing To Persecute Someone For Telling The Truth

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