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

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200. Well, that's the correct term, either. Snowden did not steal "anonymously."

If you mean he did not have an audience at the very moments he was stealing, which thief does?

A lifetime of celebrity? In exile? And if he had attempted to hid his entity, that would have won you ovr?

You're really grasping at straws. In fact, most of you are grasping at straws in an attempt to make what he did seem even more sinister. Why do you think that is?

He broke the law in order to disclose info about governmnt activities that the government did not want disclosed. For better or wors, that's it. And, yes, the disclosure embarrassed Obama. That's a risk of running for President and then doing the opposite in office of "the most open administration ever." So, both Obama and Snowden knew the risks of what they were doing.

On group of DUers claims to think that stealing disclosing the info is plenty bad enough, yet they cast about for ways to make it sound worse. Another group of DUers thinks the end justifies the means, though they may not think that in other contexts.

A third group of DUers, and the smallest, as best I can tell, think Snowden is a convenient distraction, taking attention from where it should be. That's the group to which I belong.

Now, lets talk about the USG attempting to use my money secretly to spy on me.