As Gawker 's Hamilton Nolan writes ( 6/11/13 ), journalists "have to acknowledge that Edward Snowden did something quite admirable." He notes, "Without Snowden's act, the public's knowledge of what is being done to them in their own name would be much poorer."
That's true, unless you think the public either already knows all of this--or that they shouldn't.
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