Yes, by asking a question. In a tightly scripted, controlled venue where he didn’t have a hope in hell of making an impact. It’s a pretty inconsequential mistake, by any reasonable measure. Young men, even sharp ones, get tripped up all the time by machers like Putin. Who does after all have control of Snowden’s freedom.
So how is it that this minor gaff is getting so heavily worked over by hackneyed press courtiers like David Frum? Or the writers of the Volokh Conspiracy (a WaPo blog). Why are they all over it? Because they think they’ve finally got a hook in Snowden, after nearly a year during which he pretty thoroughly confounded them.
Their little gleeful struttings all over the pages of their (very) mainstream, middlebrow venues say more about them than about Snowden. They’ve never looked more pathetic. A year’s worth of massive revelations about anti-Constitutional behavior… and all they do is prance and caper like motley-clad Medieval fools, shouting about the man who made the leaks. So very, very eager to keep their lords happy and keep the focus off the information.
