“Snowden is an outsider in Russia. He has no access to the actual surveillance situation there, nor can he “reveal” anything”
Yes. It begs the question then: why are the David Frums of our newsmedia correct in going on (at length) about how this one slip up on Snowden’s part “proves” he was a RusskieStoogeDoubleAgent all along. See http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/04/the-lies-edward-snowden-tells/360893/.
The answer is obvious; they are not. It took Snowden – an isolated 30 year old nerd – almost 11 months to make a significant stylistic/framing error. It’s a record of self-control and savvy the Frums of our world never achieve, but they are ferocious in exploiting it, aren’t they?
Snowden finally goofed. In the face of fact that he singlehandedly provided us with documentation of the NSA’s warrantless surveillance of US persons, their years-long efforts to weaken civilian encryption, and their many attempts to thwart civilian oversight by elected representatives of the American people… what was your point again?
