Laura Poitras: "I asked to interview him on camera. His first response was no, he didn’t want the story to be about him." Now he's got twitter and edwardsnowde

Laura Poitras: "I asked to interview him on camera. His first response was no, he didn’t want the story to be about him." Now he's got twitter and edwardsnowden.com? Personally, I give him the benefit of the doubt in all cases. I think there was a lot more that he could have leaked and didn't, because he believes in the value of the NSA. I think he was careful to only leak things that dealt with mass surveillance of American citizens. I think he gave up a lot of comfort to try to inspire a society that he knew in the back of his mind probably wouldn't care. I think he loves his country. Most of all, I think he's probably further on the side of national security in the privacy vs security debate than people would probably think. But other people aren't like me. I really hope Snowden is able to bring the conversation in the right direction, because this debate about what our government should be doing is far from settled and there's a lot riding on his demeanor. There's a lot riding on whether average Joe sees Snowden as profiting from his whistleblowing or giving up his comfortable life. Snowden making funny tweets is extremely high risk.