According to Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who revealed Snowden’s secrets, it’s you. Here is the essence of Mr Greenwald’s argument:

“Please just spend a moment considering the options available to someone with access to numerous Top Secret documents. * * * [i] They could easily enrich themselves by selling those documents for huge sums of money to foreign intelligence services. [ii] They could seek to harm the US government by acting at the direction of a foreign adversary and covertly pass those secrets to them. [iii] They could gratuitously expose the identity of covert agents. * * * None of the whistleblowers persecuted by the Obama administration as part of its unprecedented attack on whistleblowers [such as Private Manning or Edward Snowden] has done any of that: not one of them. * * * They did not act with any self-interest in mind. The opposite is true: they undertook great personal risk and sacrifice for one overarching reason: to make their fellow citizens aware of what their government is doing in the dark.”

prior probability asks, is this just an ex post justification of Snowden and Manning’s disclosures, or does Mr Greenwald have a point?

Hat Tip: Dave Tufte at voluntaryXchange