Notice how Sarah Palin always gets attention when she snipes on Facebook and twitter but the content of her speeches is ignored by the press.
Snowden knows what he is doing and he has been very effective at getting attention. The former NSA whistleblower Binny(sp?) was ignored
Yep.
For all the “conservatives” here who want to carp about Snowden’s tactics, they’re completely missing the fact that Snowden has the press reporting, breathlessly, what he sources.
Snowden offered this information to the Washington Compost, and they dragged their feet. The Compost probably informed the government about the leak. Snowden took appropriate and prudent measures to a) keep himself alive, b) and get the information out, without the press interfering, c) keep the press “cycle” churning in his favor.
Obama is now paying a political price for this crap. Obama’s approval dropped 8%, disapproval rose 9%, in a CNN poll, over the last month. And the biggest change is among YOUNG PEOPLE. Just as I predicted, young people live online. Young people know more about computing and social networking than the old farts in either party.