jonathan, what s your response? i wouldn t say that edward snowden is a dissident youth. david brooks column resonated with me. he writes along these lines quite frequently about the atomization of society, about how young people coming up today don t have a sense of community, mutual responsibility. and so in that vein, i thought that the david brooks was dead on. i don t view edward snowden as a hero, but i don t view him as a traitor, as well. in order to be ate a traitor, you have to reveal some huge state secret that endangers the country. as walter pinkus in the wost washington post pointed out today both the telephone records issue and the sort of data mining issue of the national security agency have both been reported. the former by usa today in may 2006 the latter just last march in wired magazine. right. jonathan, i want to spare your