Somebody Stole My Recipe.

       Well, let's see. So far Hong Kong (Actually China) has spit in our face and Russia is about to do the same. This Edward Snowden story is long past getting out of hand. And while we're at it, the mam is not a whistle blower. A whistle blower doesn't pick a sworn enemy nation to hid out in. An enemy that then allows him to fly off to another sworn enemy country in order to make connections to a third country who promises to give him sanctuary.
       Here's a recipe for problems. If you take one high school dropout and have him vetted by a company with a suspect reputation and then have a government contractor hire him to access some of the most sensitive computers in the entire country. Then let him gain all the sensitive data he wants any time he wants and then walk off with this data. Maybe, just maybe, there's a problem in this scenario.
       I don't know when it was that all these positions started being filled by private contractors, but it's gone on far too long and far too far. What if you had a bakery with some great tasting deserts? You kept all the recipes in a file marked secret recipes in a locked file cabinet. Then you have a cleaning company come in and you hand the guy a key to the cabinet. He takes the secret recipe file out and takes it to to office copier where he copies all the recipes. Then he walks out and goes over to your competitor and hands over all the recipes. Most likely for a price.
       That's the act of a traitor. No matter that he first gave some of the recipes to the newspaper. He is still a traitor. He betrayed your trust. That's what Ed Snowden did. But what about the competitors? What about China and Russia? Right now they're snickering at us. Will we retaliate? Should we retaliate? You betcha we should. China wants a deal on that ham and sausage company. They should hold their breathe. Russia's gonna want something sooner or later. There needs to be a price for everything.