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If you are an American citizen who is in possession of highly sensitive classified information, and you fly to Russia for "asylum," you should expect to be debriefed by Russian military intelligence. You will tell them everything you know. Snowden was debriefed by Russian military intelligence, and he told them everything he knew. Everybody knows this.
The previous draft of this reply said some not-kind things about the author's motivations; I deleted that and I'll avoid speculating. But the idea that the Russian government has a "good track record" of helping whistleblowers is absurd.
If you become aware of bad things that the U.S. government is doing, and you want to become a whistleblower,... (read more)
The rulemaking authority procedures are anything but "standard issue boilerplate." They're novel and extremely unusual, like a lot of other things in the draft bill.
Section 6, for example, creates a sort of one-way ratchet for rulemaking where the agency has basically unlimited authority to make rules or promulgate definitions that make it harder to get a permit, but has to make findings to make it easier. That is not how regulation usually works.
The abbreviated notice period is also really wild.
I think the draft bill introduces a lot of interesting ideas, and that's valuable, but as actual proposed legislative language I think it's highly unrealistic and would almost certainly do more harm than... (read more)
I wasn't making a claim about "everyone's opinion." A lot of useful idiots would think that you were a big hero.
You're pointing out enemies of democracy who would be happy to recruit intelligence assets from democratic countries in order to undermine global stability so that they can conquer more of eastern Europe and kill lots of innocent people.
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