> "My preference, and I think the American peoples’ preferences would have been for a lawful, orderly examination of these laws." Yes, and you had the time to

> "My preference, and I think the American peoples’ preferences would have been for a lawful, orderly examination of these laws." Yes, and you had the time to bring that to the fore. I recall one of the rationales Snowden offered for not acting sooner was that he was holding off to see whether you did anything about them via that more orderly process. I wonder how much faith in the political process, especially among young people, Obama's managed to burn.