Like the CIA spying on you through your TV or cell phone? Them hacking smart cars that drive themselves to do assassinations? PRISM? NSAs illegal encryption? The govt lying about civilian casualties? How our govt hide that our soldiers were getting hurt in Iraq by handling WMD precursors we sold them in the 80s? Our apache in Iraq killing reporters and then laughing about it? Or what about when wikileaks showed that scientists were fudging AGW data?
FWIW, the CIA can't spy on me through my TV, at least not the TV's I use, and I don't use a cellular phone either. I don't own a smart car and there still has to be somebody in it to do the assassination. Look, our government is not nice people, no government is,
that's the nature of government and why our founders wanted them limited. At least our government is one of the least not-nice ones out there.
I'm all for busting their chops when they go too far, but that wasn't what the poll asked. If you are in a position to have access to sensitive information, there are proper channels to follow. They even teach you that when you are first hired! If you still can't get anywhere, then leaking is a last resort. Anyone going into government thinking they will not see dirty dealings is a fool. The world isn't a nice place at all and our government has tremendous power. If you have to leak something to blow the whistle on very bad corruption, that is one thing, take yer chances, but if you do like that Reality Winner chick and do it just to hurt your president just because you are one screwed up liberal ***** following a private political vendetta, then you deserve the book thrown at you. That isn't patriotism, that is just stupidity.
But the real question is, considering her past, her tweets about Iran, her Bernie alliance, how did she ever get security clearance there in the first place?
The one thing government has shown time and again is that its corruption is exceeded only by its incompetency.