The problem with defending Snowden.

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106. If Ellsberg "went through the appropriate channels," then why was he prosecuted? Ellsberg

didn't flee the country probably b/c he needed to stay here to work with Neil Sheehan and other journalists to coordinate publication of the PP (which he had in hard-copy, having used newly emergent Xerox technology to make additional hard copies). Actually Ellsberg didn't expose 'actual wrongdoing' (unless a bi-partisan history and fabric of lying to the American public by politicians is 'wrongdoing'. Since the Pentagon Papers were historical in nature, going up only through 1967, they could only reveal stuff that had 'already happened.' But you can bet your ass they were read with a great deal of interest in the Soviet Union, China and Vietnam for what they revealed about the American decision-making process.

That's all by-the-by, though. I was really taking issue with your transparent attempt to smear Snowden by saying that somehow the act of 'premeditation' somehow renders his public service less valuable.