It paid off for our founding fathers.

I have too much respect for you, Marc, to think you're doing anything other than joking but it's still disappointing and not really funny.

Remember all the people in Germany during WWII (*sorry for the tired analogy) who could have spoken up and didn't. I guess they did the right thing. They certainly wouldn't want to commit treason -- it doesn't pay.

Lots of americans wouldn't agree that he committed a treason. And not just americans, btw. Disclosing such acts of violation of your Constitution is a necessity, not a treason. It isn't the case where it would have been better not to know about it.

Sure it does. Just ask NSA/CIA. They betray their country and ideals it was founded on, on a millisecond basis.

But you need to be on the right side to get all the fat loot.