His motives are irrelevant to the facts he’s disclosed. Those facts would remain if his motives were pure or impure.
The story isn’t about Snowden, it’s about the NSA.
Making the story about Snowden is a distraction from the story which is about the NSA. Criticizing Snowden is just shooting the messenger.
Snowden is a fairly deluded libertarian who found something really bad happening, delivered the news through a journalist after his peers were shot down trying to deliver it through formal channels, and then had a crappy exit plan.
The NSA is a massive government security agency that is spying on all of us. The NSA is a massive government security agency that is spying on all of us, and belligerently violating the spirit of the 4th Amendment, if not the letter.
Which matters more, that the messenger is a screwy libertarian, or that a major governmental agency has been and continues to belligerently trounce the 4th amendment?
