Not irrelevant, Assnage and Manning did what they did simply to damage the US but are hailed as heroes by the left and likely Obama.
Snowden?
He’ll get droned or “mysterious accident/poisoning” and denigrated for pretty much doing the right thing in this case.
Snowden and those two are apples and oranges.
Is there evidence Manning and Assunge are his heroes?
Even if they were it doesn’t matter.
So, how to get rid of the FISA infrastructure ~ and the solution presents itself. An emotionally marginal NSA geek meets this acrobat ballerina pole dancer and falls in love, then he succumbs to her blandishments and says 'Hey guys, NSA let me do all this stuff if I really wanna'" and then have the newsies push on it.
Remember, Axelrod has a complete stable of all sorts of women who will do or say anything he wants ~ presumably for money ~ and he has his sources still inside the former USSR institutions in Russia.
Well, there you have it ~ Snowden is probably gone down the memory hole, and the acrobat woman is already back advertising on her website ~ she sure moved on fast didn't she. And the FISA courts? They look like they are incapable of controlling NSA's use of the latest in this fancy technology, and presumably Congress will take up the issue and get rid of the courts ~ handing it all back to 'bama and his henchmen.
I think they miscalculated this one.