Agreed. It's different than "just doing your job" and uncovering evidence of waste, fraud and abuse. What it sounds like instead is that Snowden decided there

Agreed. It's different than "just doing your job" and uncovering evidence of waste, fraud and abuse. What it sounds like instead is that Snowden decided there must be waste, fraud, and abuse going on and took it upon himself to go on a fishing expedition to find evidence supporting that; exactly the kind of thing we stridently guard against the government doing to us. Now I'm wondering whether Greenwald being so incredibly off about PRISM itself was due to Greenwald being not technically savvy, or due to Snowden himself misunderstanding what PRISM did and leading Greenwald and WaPo astray. And if Snowden was misunderstanding, was it because he was incompetent, or because the evidence he found seemed to support the conclusion he'd already come up with?