Quote Originally Posted by Calculated View Post
Citizen Four is a good documentary on HBO and available for rent if you don't have HBO I believe. Opened my eyes as to what transpired, recorded as it happened.

I think he did what he thought was right for the American people, and I don't believe he was a traitor. His own personal decisions about how he handled himself after are of little concern to me considering I don't believe he would've gotten a fair trial, or one at all.

Edit: No I won't be seeing the movie
You mean it made you see the situation the way they wanted you to see it. Editing decisions can change the portrayal of events, even ones "recorded as it happened." There is no damned way he entered in good faith, discovered something he thought was bad, went to the IG to no avail, went to his congressional rep to no avail, social engineered illicit entry into other peoples' accounts, harvested the data, and set up his escape plan all in the limited time frame he was an NSA contractor. The last three things he obviously did but I am beyond skeptical about the first four. He was a traitor on the order of (or beyond) Aldrich Ames and Christopher Boyce, pure and simple.