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in the most simple of terms:
we had an opportunity here. according to snowden himself he still has the most damaging documents of all, unreleased. if the *story* had been able to stay focused on those document, i.e. if they were revealed and damaging, then we had a chance of this being a catalyst for positive change. the story would have maybe created transparency laws and more.
instead, the nsa has now come out and said, fuck yeah, we snoop it fucking all man, fuck you, business as usual.
the half-hearted attempt, the lack of valor, doomed the entire opportunity. that has everything to do with how snowden chose to handle it. look, a couple months ago it took me about 15 minutes to see the history of how these things go, snowden certainly could have done that. i never claim to be smart but i do claim to look into things and try and base my view on the history, which is what i've done here.
lost opportunity is due to snowden. ending up on the lamb in russia isn't good for anybody.
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