these guys were among hundreds of thousands of americans who have high-level clearances. high-level clearances that provided them as fairly low-level employees to access of highly classified documents. how can somebody who's a 22-year-old private first class or 29-year-old technical assistant access documents about programs that are so secretive their disclosure rocks the government to its core? and if you have that many low-level employees all looking at information about your vast invasive surveillance machine that the government will not talk about in public, how safe do you think that information is? it is almost the natural conclusion that one of them, among the hundreds of thousands, is going to decide to leak in the belief that what they're doing is ultimately for the public good. or at least to satisfy public curiosity. then if you are that low-level employee with that access to very highly classified supposedly super consequential information, and you decide to let this stuff be publicly known, how do you decide what to do with it? if you're so technically