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kleinbl00  ·  2951 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal

    In early June, shortly after the May 22, 2011 6 pm broadcast of a 60 Minutes episode on the Drake case, the government dropped all of the charges against Drake and agreed not to seek any jail time in return for Drake's agreement to plead guilty to a misdemeanor of misusing the agency's computer system. Drake was sentenced to one year of probation and community service.

Don't get me wrong - it's a big bundle of bullshit. They had a torture flight primed for Snowden and the shit they're doing to Chelsea Manning is beyond the pale, but within the confines of "whistleblowing" things have been largely okay.