Breaking: Snowden has papers that will allow him to leave Moscow airport

[JDPriestly]

28. If his information was all that valuable, he would not be in Russia.

The contractors should be more careful about security if they want to keep their contracts.

I'm grateful that Snowden told us what he did. How can we claim to be a democracy, of what value is the "right to vote" if we, that is the 99.9% of us who are loyal, law-abiding citizens aren't even allowed to know what our government is doing with regard to our own electronic information?

What are we voting on if we don't know what our government is doing?

Is it just a matter of which suit's tie looks best?

Snowden is one of a number of whistleblowers who have simply told the American people truths that we need to know.

Whose security does our Espionage Act protect? That of the corrupt and cruel? Or that of the American people? And who gets to answer those questions?

Snowden's answer to the basic questions I am asking was, "The American people." And I agree with him on that.

It's Government 101. Apparently they don't teach that in some business schools or some computer technician programs.