try updating your system and emunand <| sep |> Who ' s life did he jeopardize ? National Security is relative . Many would rather live in an informed democratic society and accept the risks then live in a place were you are secure from something but you have no idea whether the government is listening to your phone calls . What ' s good about security from foreign forces when the domestic ones are doing more damage ? I ' d call a multiagency , multiadministration executive subversion of constitutional law a bigger deal than his leak . I ' m way more afraid of the power the united states government has than one guy . Let ' s also add the government assured us after they got caught that they could keep this sensitive data secure . If the intelligence community could keep the vast amounts of personal data it wants a secret we wouldn ' t even be talking about this but they failed and yet all the blame for this enormous scandal comes down to one cowardly guy who wisely avoided an unfair judicial process . Ok , sure . Here ' s an analogy . Some guy who knows your wife well tells you she ' s cheating on you and skimming your bank account for her new man . This guy is random to you but was a close personal friend to your wife and completely betrayed her trust to tell you she was betraying yours . Do you punch the stranger in the face and buy your wife flowers ? Cause that ' s what this sounds like .