Quote Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter View Post
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.
You think he was a puppet, defector, mole or traitor? He exposed the gov for lying to and spying on We the People. He didn't sell or cleary have any personal gain from these events, edited or not. You think he prefers his life in Russia? Why was he admonishing his host country recently? To keep up appearance? I doubt it.

He made a sacrifice to make the average American aware of what he thought, and I agree, was wrong. Keep in mind it was also against the law what they were and probably still are doing.

I respectfully disagree with your conclusions.