Beware of ignoring the fact that the IRS has already admitted to guilt in the targetting, and has those investigated pleading the fifth amendment.

I like the part where you deliberately Ignore the fact that the IRS has admitted their guilt in targeting Tea Party groups, and has fired people for their involvement in the actions and those implicated are pleading the fifth to protect themselves in front of courts. If they've done nothing wrong, then they have no need to plead the fifth as the truth would be revealed during the court cases. Ollie North may not have been guilty too, except that he was.

If you look at the IRS MAnual wqhere it explicitly states they backup their exchange server according to FISMA standards regularly and offsite, or they are non compliant.

Instead of offering any sort correct and accurate "signal" of actual useful information you dump about 20 sentences, berating him adding to the noise. You are either signal or noise and you AC rant is the same crap you accuse him of.
http://www.irs.gov/irm/index.h... You can see in the document they are held under FISMA standards and Their exchange was backed up regularly.

Backing up archived email isn't difficult. No one is claiming the entire computer needs to be backed up.

It unraveled Nixon, and was a tipping point in his paranoia, which would ultimately lead to the SIU/Watergate break ins. Even if people do not react intelligently, they are better served by the truth about their government than lies/misrepresentations.

He most certainly did claim to have made attempts and on public Television afforded the NSA the ability to to prove he hadn't. HAve you seen the NSA step up and repeat that no attempts were made and prove him wrong?

Some would argue the Pentagon Papers and Daniel Ellsberg amounted to a positive change.

An anonymous leak can be dismissed as fake, and the US gov't could spin it into any number of threads purporting it is in fact a foreign ploy or what have you.

So we have an anonymous coward who is whining about other people feeling they have something to hide. You realize what a fool you look like by posting this comment as AC?

Delete your wiki edits/comments, so they cannot claim ownership of what you wrote.

People who are pissed off at Edward Snowden are the same people who would applaud the US government if they claimed they needed to curtail free speec/freedom of the press until this whole "terrorist" thing has passed. If only the times were safer to afford such liberties.

// Your driver could be a meth-addled convict with a bottle of jagermeister between his legs, but since he never had to go through a background check or a drug test or even a physical, the hook he uses to steer the car between epileptic bouts of withdrawal is in Ubers understanding a sterling example of a world class taxi service without the hassle of icky cabs.

The bulk of cab drivers I've seen are meth-addled convicts. It hasn't always been Jagermeister tucked in their legs.

We've always been at war with East Anglia.

They actually could survive by selling a better office suite. The fact is the changes made to their software aren't widely regarded as better. They'd sell a better OS if it was genuinely and provably simpler, faster more secure : better. The problem is the licensing the ham fisted lock in attempts and newer closed formats top prevent departing: I am looking at you Sharepoint!