re: #38 philosophus invidius
I wonder of Snowden’s hagiographers have every considered whether he had some means of calling attention to questionable NSA tactics without a massive public data dump.
Oh, they have a ready answer for that one — Obama is waging a war on whistleblowers and Snowden would have immediately been thrown into solitary confinement, tortured, and very possibly murdered.
And I’m not exaggerating.