Pedantic reply is pedantic. The point I am trying to make is that Snowden took this story to a few local, bona-fide, 100% US-owned/operated/associated well-kno

Pedantic reply is pedantic. The point I am trying to make is that Snowden took this story to a few local, bona-fide, 100% US-owned/operated/associated well-known media outlets and they passed. He went to a UK-associated news outlet and got published. When you're done focusing on the most irrelevant part of my post, please look closer and see if you can discern a forest amongst the trees.