Edward Snowden made a calm, compelling case for clemency last night. He's a patriot.

[merrily]

92. So, the difference between grade school-like posts and other kinds is geography, not content?

I'll try to remember that.

I have no devotion to Snowden or Greenwald, though I don't think they are the same.

Snowden broke the law. Greenwald did not. If this were the Pentagon Papers case, Snowden would analogous to Ellsberg while Greenwald is analogous (in role, not in size or prestige) to the New York Times However the times are very different. No Gravel is reading Snowden's documents into the Congressional record.

In any case, and whatever their motives may have been, I am grateful that I have the information, regardless of how it got to me. And I think the focus on them by both their admirers and their critics only deflects from the real issues, which are the Constitutional ones, not whether they're evil or egomaniacs or whatever. I could care less what their personalities are.