Would Snowden be looked at differently if he went to 60 Minutes with the information he took?

[Hekate]

28. I would certainly respect him more. I want my country improved, not destroyed...

... and what Snowden and Greenwald are doing is very destructive of our relationships with other countries. They are all doing it (allies spying on each other, that is), afaik, but once it's rubbed in their faces they have to react very publicly and very negatively, just as we would. And their citizens are outraged, just as we would be.

As for Russia and China, we are very vulnerable to their government-sponsored hacking, espionage, subversion, and destruction: they are not our friends, and we do not want them to know what we know. Now they do. Thanks a lot.

The elements of the USA PATRIOT ACT that were passed into law in a blind panic in 2001 now need to be substantially dismantled and intelligently rethought. I want the NSA and CIA and "Homeland" this and that back where they belong: monitoring the world outside our borders, and not interfering with our lives as Americans. If this scandal accomplishes that much, I will be forever grateful.

Yesterday someone here brought up whether Snowden's methods and motives are beside the point, and claimed that discussing them is a diversionary tactic. I disagree. We are capable of thinking about more than one thing at a time....