When the U.S. Government realizes that Snowden has more credibility than it does on spying, it may come to realize better ways to improve its stature. The tried

When the U.S. Government realizes that Snowden has more credibility than it does on spying, it may come to realize better ways to improve its stature. The tried-and-true method for handling huge PR gaffs is to come clean and state everything you've done the public might consider wrong so no one else can, state you understand you shouldn't have done it, and take responsibility for doing it better. The problem for the U.S. Government for doing anything remotely like that is that the decision to do so has to come from the top, which is Obama, and Obama doesn't seem to agree with the public that the government did something wrong. Or that somehow the system isolated him or twisted his understanding to where he doesn't understand the public's perspective, odd as that may sound regarding a lawyer who would understand the Fourth Amendment.