The Ed Show

The government and media campaign to discredit NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden has reached a new low. It was bad enough he was slimed as a high school dropout, narcissist, glory seeker, Chinese spy, Russian spy and disturbed loser. Now the big story is that he lied his way into his high security NSA job specifically to steal and reveal classified information. Once again, the entrenched powers seek to keep the spotlight on Snowden rather than the terrible wrongdoing he has exposed. When a good and decent citizen infiltrates a criminal gang or a terrorist group to expose them, he's hailed for his bravery and service to society. When someone like an Ed Snowden infiltrates an organization to expose American governmental wrongdoing he is called every vile name possible to hide their skullduggery.

Whatever his methods, like Daniel Ellsberg who swiped the Pentagon Papers back in 1969, and leaked them to the Glenn Greenwalds of his era in 1971, I call Snowden what he really is: a patriot and a hero.