John Oliver’s Must-See Interview With Edward Snowden
Oliver to Snowden: “You have to own that”
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John Oliver might be the first interviewer who has ever asked Edward Snowden some hard questions about what he did. In this Last Week Tonight clip, Oliver presses Snowden relentlessly on why he stole and released so many secret documents without ever reading them — and Snowden doesn’t come off well at all. And Oliver does this while still addressing our very real concerns about privacy and surveillance, a balancing act no one else has managed to achieve.
It’s sad that we’ve reached a state where comedians do a better job of real journalism than most journalists, who’ve acted more as sycophantic enablers of Snowden’s actions than anything else.
