The Snowden Revelations Just Don't Hold Water
 

Snowden was initially lionized, much as Daniel Elsburg was in my twenties, as a man who wanted to save the republic from snoop-minded zealots within government who were hell-bent on creating an America that mirrors George Orwell's 1984. But "where's the beef?" as Walter Mondale used to say. The only person who has clearly violated any laws, as far as I can see, is Edward Snowden himself, who breached his own sacred oath to preserve state secrets entrusted to him. But the media, with its own axe to grind in this case, has been slow to tell us what's really going on. And now comes Edward Lucas, a distinguished senior editor at what has perhaps become the finest weekly newsmagazine with truly global reach, The Economist, who says in a cogent new ebook, The Snowden Operation: Inside the West's Greatest Intelligence Disaster, (2014: Kindle Singles), "I cannot see the heroic virtues in the Snowden affair which others have celebrated."

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