Why did it take a Democratic administration for Snowden to become a dissident?

[MADem]

303. I think two or more things can be true and also be unrelated.

I think Snowden liked to collect information--knowledge is power.

I think he was a right-libertarian Paulbot who had a callous attitude towards those in our society who have need of the social safety net.

I think he disliked Obama.

I think the fact that he was advised that there were discrepancies in his resume (but they were going to hire him anyway) spooked him, and caused him to grab everything he could get his hands on, and run. I think he didn't carefully think through his little plan, and he rather stupidly skipped through two authoritarian dictatorships in a crazed, disorganized bid to escape, which have a worse record of surveillance and human rights than we could ever come up with, and now he's stuck because of his intemperate stupidity.

Either that, or he's a foreign agent who has been on another country's payroll for years, and they gave him the order to Grab and Run after he told them about the contretemps with his resume, that Booz had found "discrepancies" in the educational portion. Discrepancies have to be resolved--they can't just sit there. He knew he'd get another look-see by USIS...or maybe the "real" vetters would do the job this time, not incompetent contractors.

I don't think his heart is as pure as some might believe.