Something to think about for those tearing up Snowden

[MineralMan]

12. The Administration, as usual, is waiting for more, and accurate

information before making statements. In addition, they'll be unlikely to say much about Snowden. That's going to become a prosecution at some point, probably.

Some people are picking apart some of the things Snowden has said. For example, it is highly unlikely that he had the level of access that he is claiming. Intelligence operations are very compartmentalized, and an employee of a civilian vendor is unlikely to have access to much more than is required. The documents that have appeared are not critical documents in any way. They are briefing documents, used to inform people outside of the actual intelligence organization of what the organization is doing, in broad, general terms.

Such documents are not so hard to view for people like Snowden. More than that, he was unlikely to have access, especially to actual captured data or analyses of that data. I'm taking his claims with a larger amount of salt than is good for my blood pressure.