Sure, Gates mildly misspoke when he endorsed ‘civil disobedience’ but said that breaking the law wasn’t good. But it’s obvious in context what he meant by it, that it was the massive and indiscriminate leaking that Snowden did that was the problem, the irresponsible way he went about it.

I don’t even like Gates but what the fuck, attacking him like this depends on not reading what he actually said.