You better than most know than you don't get heard until you release an exploit. Official channels were even more useless in Snowden's case than usual. And as

You better than most know than you don't get heard until you release an exploit. Official channels were even more useless in Snowden's case than usual. And as a taxpayer, I want to know how we're fucking up so I can try to correct some of it. Certainly it wasn't driving itself in a useful direction. Also, if the fallout of having our actions revealed is horrible, maybe we should have done better things? Hmm. Because secrets do leak.