Q. & A.: Edward Snowden Speaks to Peter Maass: First question NYT asks: Why didn't you leak to us?

[Catherina]

71. Wired has collaborated with the government before and distorted things

In Snowden's case, I don't think he was as interested in the publication as he was in the integrity of the reporter. Can you name a more honest, principled and courageous reporter to have covered this than Greenwald? There was Hastings but a site like BuzzFeed doesn't have a big enough audience and Hastings lived in the US where he would have been in our clutches.

The Village Voice? Seriously, who reads the Village Voice anymore unless they live in NY? They changed a lot after New Times Media bought them and it doesn't reach a global audience for this very global matter.

I really don't see how he could have done this differently. Hong Kong is an ally, not an enemy and where could he have gone but Russia? Anywhere else, we would have scooped him up, shackled and muzzled him. None of the European countries were trustworthy.

I'm sure if Snowden had to do it over again, he'd have hopped on a flight to Mexico and then to Venezuela or Ecuador but he's seemed a bit naive about how deep the international complicity of the 1% is.

It's ok if we disagree lol. If you were in his shoes, where would you have gone?