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Congress, by engaging in illegal spying, by ordering the torture of prisoners. we haven't seen pro prosecutions of those officials or a lot of hand ringing about the precedent that's going to be set by not prosecuting those people. so, let's not get on a high horse and say, oh, dear, if we don't prosecute this person, we're going to set a bad precedent. that precedent has been set. the difference is that what edward snowden did, in violating the letter of the law, vastly impro improved the situation. what the officials did vastly harmed the u.s. in the world. >> edward snowden is doing what ma...