#HumanRights James Fallows writes, "I feel about this news the way I did when the Pentagon Papers were unveiled many decades ago. The public has learned something important about policies carried out in its name, at what seems

…-- for now -- a modest cost to vulnerable individuals or national safety as a whole." Sounds about right.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/10-factors-that-make-edward-snowdens-leak-defensible/276737/