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9/30/22 Judge Andrew P. Napolitano on Snowden and Assange

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

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Edward Snowden and the Constitution of the United States

Edward Snowden took two oaths, one of which was to keep secret whatever his bosses and the spies above him on the totem pole told him to keep secret. That's the same oath I took when I became a judge. What do you do when you've taken two oaths and they conflict? It's impossible to obey both. You obey the higher oath, which is higher, an oath to your bosses and to fellow spies and politicians or an oath to the ideals of the Constitution.

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