That’s the point of my original comment. He didn’t just expose a couple programs and say, “Look, these are illegal.” He grabbed somewhere between 10,000 and 1.7 million documents and walked out the door with them. Then he turned them over to a journalist. If all of this material was about illegal programs, then why hasn’t he exposed it all? But legal or not, the fact that it’s gone makes most of it worthless: if a collection program is compromised then there can be no confidence in the information it provides. Why did Snowden break all this in order to expose a small handful of programs?
