All that might be true, but nothing is stopping President Obama from ending any of these programs he's reading about in the New York Times with a phone call, fo

All that might be true, but nothing is stopping President Obama from ending any of these programs he's reading about in the New York Times with a phone call, followed by an executive order. Maybe other programs would wiggle their way through the bureaucracy without his notice, but the fact that he hasn't made a big show of publicly terminating these particular programs suggests that he is responsive to the concerns of the public. Unfortunately the concerns of the public don't appear to line up with yours at the moment. And to get back to my point, they don't line up with Snowden's either. Which is too bad for Snowden, but it doesn't give him the right to do whatever he wants with the classified information he was trusted and paid to protect.