Suck it up, Snowden-haters: New Yorker on "Why Citizenfour Deserved Its Oscar"

[randome]

215. I will always support whistleblowers. But not self-described heroic leakers.

The vast majority of Snowden's 'revelations' have been about monitoring foreign intelligence. That's the NSA's primary function.

If you don't think we need foreign intelligence, that's a valid point of view, IMO, but your viewpoint does not entitle you to decide for me or anyone else whether something is Constitutional or not.

I think the problem is that too many bored individuals doing the dry work of intelligence gathering come to think of themselves as superheroes and opt for the spotlight.

Snowden does a good job of coming across as self-deprecating. I don't think it's an act, he truly believes he is 'saving' us from ourselves.

I disagree that he is doing that.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]