Of course it doesn’t. Snowden is essentially saying he found the NSA incapable of self-policing, and that was an important step toward his ultimate decision to leak information, which makes sense to me.
But you said right from the start that Snowden should not have gone to the public, but should have found a sympathetic senator or someone. Which was in part because his release wasn’t really important, an assessment I think the reaction it has prompted shows was entirely unfair. Since then you seem to have decided to give him less benefit of the doubt, questioning whether there was any principle behind the leaks and faulting him for saying anything.
So then, it’s only natural that you don’t think this helps justify his release to the media; it really seems like you decided long ago that nothing would.
