Ed Snowden's podcast with Rogan

Ed Snowden's podcast with Rogan is excellent BTW... the following points are relevant to Assange.

Notes/rough quote:

Ed Snowden: "In every expression of executive power, the CIA, FBI, NSA work for the WH. When you violate these policies the worst that happens is you lose your job. Because there is no criminal violation.

"It is very easy for the people in these orgs to look at their authority and use it in a way that’s good for them politically.

"They are supposed to be public officials. We know their policies, their powers and prerogatives. We are supposed to know what they are doing in our name - and what they are doing against us.  If they are transparent to us we can police them and campaign against them.
"They are public officials. We are private citizens. They are not supposed to know anything about us. Because we hold no power and they hold all the power.  They are supposed to be under the tightest constraints, we are supposed to be under the freest.

"And yet since the rise of the State's Secrets Doctrine in the mid-20th century, they have misused their policies repeatedly and continuously. They were spying on MLK and trying to get him to kill himself before he might win the Nobel Prize. The FBI classified him as the greatest national security threat in the U.S. and this is the body everyone is applauding today.
"You don’t become a patriot based on where you work. Patriotism is not about loyalty  to government. Patriotism is not about loyalty to anything. Patriotism is the constant effort to do good for the people of your country. It is not about the government or the state.  Loyalty is only a good thing if it is in service of good.

"We are forced to stand naked before power. Everything that we do now lasts forever, not because we want to remember but we are not allowed to forget. If you were born after 1987 in the US, ATT has a record of every phone call you ever made."

https://youtu.be/efs3QRr8LWw