>The President resigned and Bad guys in government went to jail. And maybe it’s because Deep Throat Kept His Mouth Shut. He never talked. That's a pretty massi

>The President resigned and Bad guys in government went to jail. And maybe it’s because Deep Throat Kept His Mouth Shut. He never talked. That's a pretty massive assumption. I'd say Nixon resigned because he would have been impeached based of the evidence, regardless of whether the whistleblower was outed or not. In the same way, I suspect the numerous NSA programs will come under scrutiny of the true supreme court, regardless of whether we know Snowden's name or not. If anyone is to blame for the story's focus vacillating between Snowden and the various programs or allegiances exposed, it is the media outlets that cannot maintain their own integrity in the face of advertising revenue. I'd suspect that was part of the point of his coming out publicly. That and the fact that, in appropriating the data he did, I'd say it's a reasonable assumption that he left a massive access trail that the authorities wouldn't be far behind in tracing. We still would have heard about Mr. Snowden. We'd just be getting the story from an amalgamation of corporations and governments that, as the series of leaks has proven, just can't keep its story straight.