EUGENE ROBINSON: America Should Thank Snowden For Revealing NSA Snooping

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150. What IS relevant is that this isn't new information

Hell, if you want to talk about American's being spied on you need to go back to J. Edgar Hoover (maybe even earlier). Does that make it right to spy on American's? No, but this isn't a new development. Our government has been spying on us for a very long time.

So, I prefer not to give "props" to some guy who, depending on what you read, may have had ulterior motives in doing what he's done. I also have a problem with Snowden being held up as a whistleblower or some kind of hero when we haven't a clue what information he may or may not have given to China and Russia. Does he get a pass if he shared information that puts undercover operatives in harms way? Does he get a pass if he told them information they shouldn't have or are you one of those people who think spying on foreign countries is bad too?

The point of my original comment is that Frontline, in 2007, told us the same information that Snowden did this year, without the ambiguity of possibly passing on other secrets to foreign nations.