How do I get an outside line? geography papers Regardless, Snowden's revelations must be punished. Whether one thinks that he is right or wrong, he did something illegal. Furthermore, both judicial reviews and legislative oversight said that the programs he divulged were legal. (Of course further judicial review might overturn them, but that is immaterial at the moment.) Hopefully his divulgence won't have the same consequences that Yardley's revelations led to long ago.