re: #86 Whack-A-Mole

If my understanding of the Snowden timeline is correct, he was in contact with Greenwald/Poitras before he started work at Booz Allen Hamilton. Is this correct?

If so, then he is in no way, shape, or fucking form a hero. He took the job with the intent of stealing documents, meaning he had no idea what information he was going to come across. He didn’t leak because what he found shocked him; he was planning to leak before any such shock was possible. He took the job with the sole intent of stealing documents. He is a spy and, for giving that information to other governments, a traitor.

THIS. It’s why I don’t buy the dudebro canonization of Eddie as a hero that has sacrificed his life for the greater good.

What horseshit. I believe he went into it knowing damn well that he was going to steal those documents and try to extort an easy life for himself out of them. It didn’t matter whether that easy life came through a book deal, or a Faux News gig, or a movie about his life, or getting a cushy amnesty gig for another country that would only be too grateful to give him a free ride in exchange for what he stole. He acted deliberately and with malice. That’s no hero. That’s a liar and a thief.