There are two Snowdens: the whistle-blower, and the seemingly random leaker who is willing

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20. He didn't say that he would be choosing a "handful" of journalists.

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He said he wanted to choose an unspecified number of journalists from "each country," independent of his "bias" -- in other words, disregarding US interests.

But even if he had said he'd only share documents with a "handful" of people, I don't trust his judgement as to which journalists can be trusted. He's already shared documents containing IP addresses with a journalist from a Chinese newspaper. He was either deliberately trying to harm the interests of the US or he just didn't care.

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1268209/snowden-sought-booz-allen-job-gather-evidence-nsa-surveillance?page=all


"If I have time to go through this information, I would like to make it available to journalists in each country to make their own assessment, independent of my bias, as to whether or not the knowledge of US network operations against their people should be published."