How about: because Snowden isn't interested in murder. What if the documents contained the identity of an American mole in ISIS, would you release that? Would

How about: because Snowden isn't interested in murder. What if the documents contained the identity of an American mole in ISIS, would you release that? Would you watch the execution video when they chop off his head because you blew his cover? What if the documents contained details of a terrorist plot that the NSA has been tracking, would you release that? Would you apologize to the families of the dead because you tipped off the terrorists on how to avoid law enforcement? That's why Snowden entrusted the documents to journalists that he drilled in security practices, and that's why he gives the Feds an opportunity to comment on or object to each new document release: there is some stuff that rightly deserves to be kept secret. Just because the classification system is regularly abused doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.