Here’s another variation, @chenille, on what you wrote about how Snowden is both right and wrong every time he opens his mouth.
This time he supposedly made a gaffe, but that gaffe says more about the press courtiers who gleefully strut all over the pages of their (very) mainstream, middlebrow venues… never looking more pathetic because they are trying to keep the focus off the leaked information.
So if Snowden’s question was about the information, and the people who answer the question and report on the question danced around the question, how exactly was that question a gaffe?
I think you should go look up the definition, and spelling, of gaffe.