Edward Snowden is going to have an interesting life from now on.

Private Manning, a slick sleeve no-information boot, committed treason and I believe he should face that music.

Mr. Snowden, on the other hand... is a different chapter in a different book altogether.

I hope that the Chinese decide he's worth more alive than dead. Because responsibility for a dead Snowden will be laid squarely on the wingtip-toed feet of the Obama administration, and there has to be a pretty sizable minority of Plantation liberals looking hard for an exit strategy. Will be laid regardless of who, what, where, when or why results in Mr. Snowden's exit.

Fine old times, ain't they?

Wow.

May God watch over this man. I hope that the risks he's taken will not be in vain.

Obama can't afford to bring this guy back and can't allow him to taken by the Chinese. The obvious solution is not positive for Snowden, but if his health takes a sudden fatal turn, everyone will assume Obama pulled the trigger.

This gent has chosen to take up a rather sticky wicket indeed.

If he is as careful and as wise as I believe him to be, then he has squirreled away an ample stack of thus far unreleased information which will function as an insurance policy and a way to distribute said information in the event of his untimely disappearance or demise.

In listening to his interview I got the distinct impression that he was sending a between the lines message to those who would pursue him saying "Hey guys...I could have released this, this, and this...but I didn't. [Yet]" With the "Yet" being a silent implication.

We shall see.

Looking around today, it is revealing how few Republicans are not on board with the lords of government. In truth, an Orwellian state may be necessary for a society that refuses to make important distinctions.

I do not know Mr. Snowden. He believed in Hope and Change, and spilled to a left-wing propagandist. Still, the only person under thirty I am aware of who had a thorough grasp of politics was Alexis de Tocqueville. Say what you will about Snowden, he has made an important distinction.

He's headed for a long stay in Leavenworth, twenty years I should think, either that or a couple of years being debriefed by the ChiComs, followed by an inglorious death.

James W, well said.

The willingness of prominent GOPers touting the need for PRISM and their anger at the scope being revealed struck me as well.

Far more than anything, this event makes it clear where the lines are really drawn between those who seek to represent the people and those who seek to rule.

I don't know if his information is bullshit, but his story is. I've heard that same bullshit story in so many bars: "Yeah, I never graduated high school, but I was training for Special Forces after I was in the Army for 9 months when I broke both legs. Then I was a security guard for the NSA, but I was such a L33t H4ck3rz that they recruited me to go undercover in Switzerland and this is my gorgeous wife, Morgan Fairchild. Yeah, that's the ticket..."
Bullshit! Go away. Go sit at the other end of the bar!
So much of his backstory is bullshit.

It is like an unbelievable spy novel. Imagine the propagandist making two hundred thousand dollars and living in Hawaii, but having no formal education, not even a GED, but handling such a responsible position and being able to throw it all away. I am at a loss. Is his life like BO's and nothing is real ?

Grace it's starting to look that way. *sigh* I'm usually more skeptical about these things.

I don't know what his story really is. I do know, however, that the NSA stuff is still deeply troubling. Then again, it's been an awfully long time since I've had any expectation that anything I do using modern electronics is truly private.