The root problem with your thinking is here: > And it is possible--it has been done--to decry current NSA practice and still stay in the United States, as some

The root problem with your thinking is here: > And it is possible--it has been done--to decry current NSA practice and still stay in the United States, as some NSA officials have done in the last few years. Those NSA officials made no headway. Snowden's method will change things, even if it's just to lock down access to sensitive materials at the NSA. By your logic Rosa Parks should've stayed at the back of the bus and made a polite complaint to the bus dept.