Ed v. Ed or How to Think About the Snowden Operation - Wired State

Ed v. Ed or How to Think About the Snowden Operation - Wired State

It looks far more likely that he was trying to cripple the NSA and its allies, and to hurt America's standing in the world. Taking a huge cache of documents, and in a way that largely defies description, analysis or mitigation, is not the action of a patriotic whistleblower. It is the behaviour of a saboteur

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I couldn't agree more. A saboteur. And that is how Congress and the president and the courts need to look at this: deliberate sabotage, in the service of a radical agenda, helped by a radical movement, that has been exploited by Russia. We don't need to prove the hand of Moscow or Moscow gold in this affair to act -- and act cautiously and prudently.