Edward Snowden is a thirty-something who leaked top-secret documents that exposed the existence of a surveillance state run amok. Before there was a Snowden, there was former Navy admiral John M. Poindexter lurking in Dumbo administrations from Dutch to The Dubster as a national security specialist. When Iran-Contra got hot, Poindexter left Dutch's White House and went to work for the National Security Agency. Many of the documents released by Edward Snowden contained data gathered at the direction of Poindexter. If this is a (fair & balanced) twisted tale of deceit, so be it.
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The Very Naughty Whistleblower
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly. Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002. When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political weblog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001. More recently, Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.]
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