http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/we_should_thank_edward_snowden_20130729/ Posted on Jul 29, 2013 By Eugene Robinson Edward Snowden’s renegade decision to reveal the jaw-dropping scope of the National Security Agency’s electronic surveillance is being vindicated–even as Snowden himself is being vilified. Intelligence officials in the Obama administration and their allies on Capitol Hill paint the fugitive analyst as nothing but a traitor who wants … Continue reading We Should Thank Edward Snowden