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DirkGently

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4. "a deadlock that was broken thanks to the leaks released by the whistleblower Edward Snowden"

Reply to friendly_iconoclast (Original post)

Sun Sep 29, 2013, 02:26 PM

Sep 2013

Yep. This is what needed to go. Invoking secrecy to keep secret any facts tending to show secrecy was abused.

A nice circular prison for Constitutional rights.

Would have been nice to break it open without a divisive whistleblowing incident, but this is exactly what whistleblowing is for.

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