> This is where your rhetoric is getting ahead of the facts. The Snowden leaks were published in American newspapers. Snowden is being prosecuted under the Esp

> This is where your rhetoric is getting ahead of the facts. The Snowden leaks were published in American newspapers. Snowden is being prosecuted under the Espionage Act, the reporters were threatened repeatedly by the authorities, The Guardian was forced to destroy their copies of the Snowden Archives, etc etc. Also, just because the "secret NSA power" of National Security Letters are a tool made legal by Congress doesn't change the ethics concerns relating to their use.