Snowden GUILTY of Telling Truth

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That Snowden, who's effectively been on the run since leaking details of the NSA's surveillance programs last June, might yearn for some semblance of a normal life is understandable. What's harder to sympathize with is Snowden's apparent belief that he shouldn't be held accountable for his actions.

In a meeting in Moscow yesterday, Snowden handed a letter to Hans-Christian Ströbele, a member of Germany's Green Party, in which he expressed a willingness to travel to Germany to testify about the U.S.'s surveillance activities. The letter is testament to Snowden's combination of naiveté, victimhood, and Assange-like narcissism. He describes his decision to disclose classified U.S. government information as a "moral duty" and claims that "as a result of reporting these concerns, I have faced a severe and sustained campaign of prosecution that