It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the history of the United States. But that's not his goal. [His] objective is to expose software that people around the world use without knowing what they are exposing themselves without consciously agreeing to surrender their rights to privacy. [He] has a huge number of documents that would be very harmful to the US government if they were made public.

Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.

Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred - other than because the force of law is being used to control political discourse and one form of terrorism (violence in the Muslim world) is done by, rather than to, the west?

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.

The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes.

Of all the views that are detached from reality, the most delusional is that Christians are persecuted in the U.S.