This is just to say, for the record, that I think Obama was shamefully disingenuous or self-deluded in declaring in his
press conference yesterday that Edward Snowden is not a patriot and suggesting that he himself would have triggered the kind of inquiry into current surveillance practices that Snowden has unleashed if not pushed by Snowden's disclosures.
This, in particular, is a logical elision:
So the fact is, is that Mr. Snowden has been charged with three
felonies. If, in fact, he believes that what he did was right, then,
like every American citizen, he can come here, appear before the court
with a lawyer and make his case
