The hardest thing to do is say "I was wrong"

[quakerboy]

92. Sure it was.

Show me the post, the person who gave snowden, or the information he provided, "the benefit of the doubt" Prior to the event. Couldnt be done, because there was nothing to credit. Its a silly argument. If taking any concealed information and making it public automatically takes away your "benefit of the doubt", then there is never any way to expose misdeeds. Because if you say nothing you are complicit, and if you say something you are a criminal. It is an Impossible lose lose situation you have created. Therefore, I reject it.

Anyway, you still didn't address what I asked. This is the second assertion that there was another way. So, what other means of redress were there? Specifically, what alternate avenue of action did snowden have available that would have brought this NSA spying issue to be a regular daily conversation point among people in the USA, therefore having any possibility of we the people requiring a change in the system of our elected officials, who have made it clear they intend to make no changes unless forced.