I don’t buy Greenwald’s comment that Snowden gave lots of documents to lots of people, in case “anything happens to him.” Seems pretty clear that those classified documents will already be used to maximum effect, and this will not change, no matter what happens to Snowden.

Snowden may not have wanted it, or planned it this way, but it seems to me that the maximum damage from these documents is already “baked in the cake”, no matter what.

All we can do is try to apprehend him, and also try to not make the damage any worse, e.g. by raising tensions between us and other nations over this.