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

[woo me with science]

266. Actually, polls have pretty consistently indicated that Americans distrust NSA spying

and believe the government has overreached and violated civil liberties.

Not that polls are relevant to the defense of our fundamental Constitutional protections anyway, but you can look up all major polling from the beginning of this year, and results are pretty consistent.

January 2014 CNN Poll:
Majority oppose NSA, Obama's address had little impact
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/20/poll-majority-oppose-nsa-obamas-address-had-little-impact/

January 2014 USA Today/Pew Research Poll:
Most Americans now oppose the NSA program
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/01/20/poll-nsa-surveillance/4638551/

January 2014 Summary of Polls by Electronic Frontier Foundation (ABC News/Washington Post, Pew/Huffington Post, Anzalone Lizst Grove Research, Rasmussen, Harvard University Institute of Politics
Update: Polls Continue to Show Majority of Americans Against NSA Spying
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/polls-continue-show-majority-americans-against-nsa-spying



Your crew keeps posting this one poll about perceptions of Snowden himself. But it's not a surprise that Americans weren't sure what to think of Snowden himself, given the constant barrage of smear coming from our corporate media.

This interview was probably the first time many have had the chance to hear from Snowden in his own words, unfilted by corporate pundits and smearers,

Following the interview, poll numbers turned significantly to support him.

This interview showed that, given the opportunity to hear directly from him instead of through the filter of the smear machine, people agree with his reasoning, which has been implied in their poll responses to the NSA spying all along.