there's so much of what is said here in
Washington is designed to deceive and
mislead the public such as mr. Snowden
should have invoked the protections he
had under the laws or whistleblower
which is something that President Obama
himself said and the reason that
particular claim is so patently false is
because the law that President Obama was
talking about doesn't even apply to
private contractor employees such as mr.
Snowden which is significant because a
huge part of the national security state
is outsourced to private corporations
something like 70% of the overall budget
according to the investigative
journalist historic that goes to the NSA
ends up going to the the functions of
private corporations but the broader
point you know is is about this idea
that there's all these great
whistleblowing
procedures and you should have gone to
Congress the way the US government is
structured is to hide not to illuminate
secret wrongdoing by people in power and
the best proof of that is that there are
two Democratic senators Ron Wyden and
and mark Udall who sit on the Senate
Intelligence Committee who have been
going around this city and everywhere
they can four years before Edward
Snowden emerged
warning the public that there are these
radical surveillance policies that the
Obama administration has embraced there
are Democrats saying this and the public
would be stunned to learn about what it
was that was being done and yet those
two senators didn't have the courage to
disclose these programs even though they
thought they were illegal because the
system is designed to gag even powerful
senators when they believe they've
discovered the national security state
doing wrong and so Edward Snowden knew
he couldn't go to people like Ron Wyden
and mark Udall because they were
impotent the system ensures that they
are and they themselves ensured that
they were and his only way to get the
information to the public was to do what
Daniel Ellsberg did which was go to
newspapers and ask them to publish it