2016 Postmortem

The only possible reason one might care how the NSA's constitutional violations came to light is if one is interested in protecting those who currently trample all over our Constitution. As much as I generally abhor the idea, this is a rare case where the ends really did justify the means. If Snowden had gone to non-traditional media, the story would have been probably been relegated to CT and blown off by both the media that matters and the U.S. Senate.