Snowden has yet to tell me anything that was a fact that I have been able to rebut or that anybody in the U.S. government I have talked to has been able to rebut.

The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden.

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.