On October 27, 2013, the former CIA Deputy Director: Mike Morell was interviewed by correspondent John Miller on 60 Minutes. The interview was entitled The Deputy Director: Mike Morell.
According to Miller, Morell’s “insights have helped shape the key foreign-policy decisions of the last three presidents.”
In discussing Edward Snowden, the leaker of classified documents concerning the United States’ secret electronic surveillance programs, Morell said he did not believe that Snowden was a whistleblower.
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On October 22, 2013, columnist Tom McCarthy, writing for the Washington Post, wrote a blog on the Washington Post website entitled: Richard Cohen’s reverse on Snowden: not a ‘traitor’, but a whistleblower.
McCarthy reports that Richard Cohen, also columnist for the Washington Post, said that last June, he, Cohen, had written that Snowden will “go down in history not as a whistleblower but ‘as a cross-dressing Little Red Riding Hood’ who is ‘ridiculously cinematic’ and ‘narcissistic.’”
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