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...and Snowden should turn himself in to the
Proper Authorities.
...nothing pissed me off more during the FISA debates when Jay Rockefeller admitted to knowing about the spying and got so upset he wrote a letter and stuck it in his desk. He was "sworn" to secrecy but also was a minority member and had real little power to expose things without paying a heavy price. A price, as you point out, few patriots will do.
If there's all this evidence...it needs to be brought into the open and then pressure applied to legislators to get answers. I'd like to see the establishment of a new Church commission with a Senator Wyden or Sanders at the helm to separate what's currently legal, what abuses have occurred and who was responsible and ways to curtail future intrusions. Playing games with sensitive information is doing nothing but antagonizing people further...not getting any closer to finding out the truth...
That has got to be one of the most tired authoritarian memos out there.
And it seems that you have read almost nothing about the NSA programs over the summer.
The ones who persistently put down Greenwald and Snowden.
Fuck those guys. 
But that does not appear to be the case.
As a simple example ... after his partner was detained, Greenwald said he had documents on UK spy programs that he was going to release and the UK would be "sorry".
Greenwald's motive appears to be revenge, not altruism. He has these documents. And he's been holding them. But because of the UK's actions, he intends to release them as punishment.
Why not release them earlier because of the "people's right to know"? Why hold them.
Have you noticed he keeps making threats? Is that how real journalists operate?
Consider Snowden. That guy is screwed. And Greenwald, he's sitting pretty.
A real journalist's only agenda would be the truth. Greenwald's penchant for hyperbole, and for making himself the story, suggests that he is something other than a journalist.
And that his agenda is anything but a noble search for the truth regarding the scary US government.
Maybe his book next spring will explain it.
If we assume that the higher level officials who are stating mistruths know better then it's not so far-fetched to think that they are playing a short game. In other words, they could be lying now because their understanding is that this problem is going to go away.
Though it might be more a matter of having a low regard for the process of accountability. 
It also could be a bit of both.
...despite the ever growing mountain of evidence against them is hard for me to understand.
That was a Lost Cause several weeks ago,
when the claims that "The Government does not spy on Americans" sank beneath the Tsunami of Evidence.
The Denials have now turned into a Tragedy/Comedy Train Wreck.
I know I should avert my eyes from such degrading self-abasement,
but I just can't.
Little wonder why they are so bitter and angry.
While slime-ball Personal attacks, guilt by association, innuendo,
and shrill screams of "Traitor" and "Coward" are nothing new to America,
the Swiftboating of Kerry was the first time I could see the evidence of broad organization, and I think that the comparison applies to the current attempts.
If that information is something we are all entitled to have because it's our democratic right, then it should all be dumped out there right away.
