That's a nice article to read. Happy to see this as a conclusion: “They are trying to shift attention away from what the U.S. government has done onto what the

That's a nice article to read. Happy to see this as a conclusion: “They are trying to shift attention away from what the U.S. government has done onto what the people who have reported it have done.” Seriously. It would be like if someone trespassing on OJ Simpson's property caught video of OJ harming people with a knife and then the public focusing on how terrible of a person the trespasser is, ignoring the fact that it's incredible video evidence of a much more serious crime. Further, it would be as though the trespasser only trespassed in the first place because he heard loud screams from the property. In other words, Snowden's a whistleblower, but I think the media and gov't have succeeded in ruining the term 'whistleblower'. Whistleblowers almost by definition have to violate certain laws, but our protection laws were supposed to make that ok. It's highly complex and more so for people in intelligence whistleblowing on intelligence matters. That's why Snowden's also a hero.