Last paragraph tl;dr: "To sum up, for the last several months, while living in Russia, Snowden has been putting forward a justification for his acts (a) that h

Last paragraph tl;dr: "To sum up, for the last several months, while living in Russia, Snowden has been putting forward a justification for his acts (a) that he knows is not true, since it doesn’t explain his actions, (b) that is approved at the highest levels by the Russian government and (c) that gravely harms the US and helps Russia in its confrontations with the US around the world." Thanks tokenadult, as usual, for the regular updates from an opposing view on Snowden. I'm still undecided whether the man was operating for attention from the start, or got scared and changed his plans after the leak already got under way. In either case, I've come around to accept Snowden as a non-altruistic actor.