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Sorry, I thought in your previous comment you were drawing a connection with Snowden due to the "lives saved" quotation you included. With Snowden, it is a lot

Sorry, I thought in your previous comment you were drawing a connection with Snowden due to the "lives saved" quotation you included. With Snowden, it is a lot more complicated - many people don't believe he did the world a service, and is in fact a traitor. (Not to mention, he's living in a Russian apartment which although not my preferred lifestyle, it is still far from being a gulag.)

Chris2048 3y ago
> many people don't believe he did the world a service, and is in fact a traitor. I'm not sure what to respond. Ok, why do people believe that, label him this - what are their arguments? I think the point here is how authorities act, and what they are allowed to get away with. PRISM, apparently, is something they are allowed to get away way. Where are the "traitors" spying on Americans? Or are those all unquestionably "heros"? > he's living in a Russian apartment True, because he managed to escape, and probably is looking over his shoulder a lot in the meanwhile. On the other hand, if he ended up in US custody, we might know very little until "found dead in his cell", which would no doubt be yet another unaccountable accident.