Citing Snowden, the FISA court orders the government to declassify more of its secret opinions

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61. I don't know that YOU called him a hero. There are those here who have.

I've never personally attacked Snowden. I don't agree with the way he handled it, and I think he gets too much credit for no more than he did (particularly compared to the ACLU), but I don't care what his personal habits are.

I think putting him on a pedestal sends the wrong message. I understand it is our tendency to give the field goal kicker the credit for winning the game at the last second (ignoring the good play during the rest of the game), but the headline would have been more fair if it said something to the effect of: ACLU finally makes progress in battle against government surveillance programs - some credit goes to whistle blowers.

As I said before, we don't want a bunch of young people thinking that they can break the law and become a household name, and be called a hero (not by you of course). I'd rather give credit where credit is due, and the ACLU (who I am not in any way affiliated with) takes donations to fight the good fight. They have other battles that they are fighting as well. If they were getting the credit for this, rather than Snowden, it might set the right-wing nut job detractors (that complain about the ACLU on their radio programs) back since EVERYONE is opposed to this surveillance, and it might help them with their funding.

Promoting one individual when the opportunity to elevate a long standing liberal organization doesn't make any sense.

I understand that there has been a lot of contention between the pro-Snowden and anti-Snowden 'groups' here, but this should be celebrated as a victory by the ACLU - at minimum in addition to giving some credit to the whistle-blowers.

This really isn't about Snowden.