This interview on NPR that took place today was some of the most useful info I have heard on this event and it changed my thoughts on a number of things. When the story first broke, my initial thoughts were he was an attention seeking D-bag who probably leaked important info to US national security and probably put many in danger. As the story has progressed, and I have learned more of what he leaked and why, and that fact he does NOT believe everything should be open to the public (that is, he feels there's info that need to be kept out of public view) and that he's kept a consistent message, and now after listening to this interview, I now feel I understand his actions better and they may have been warranted and a benefit to the Republic and what it's (suppose) to stand for.
I'm not totally convinced his personal motivations are 100% noble, but the end result may be net benefit regardless.
Highly recommended:
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has revealed some of the group's most carefully guarded secrets.
The reporting on the documents he leaked won a Pulitzer Prize for the Washington Post and The Guardian, announced on Monday.
But there's still a lot we don't know about Snowden himself — and his motivation.
In a new article in Vanity Fair, Bryan Burrough, Suzanna Andrews and Sarah Ellison take a closer look at Snowden in an effort to explain how a high school dropout, a "seemingly aimless geeky kid from the Maryland suburbs," came to possess and expose secret NSA documents.
The trio spent six months researching their Vanity Fair article, "." Burrough reflects on the article with Fresh Air's Terry Gross.
Show: http://www.npr.org/2014/04/16/303733...-to-nsa-leaker
Originally Posted by SteveS
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