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As a pet for nsa activity in the future. >> when you poll this, ronan, people put it low on the totem pole. we understand why the government would want to tavk tap the phones of an adversary sort of government, like a russia, china, but to what end do the snowdens -- do they build this conspiracy theory, but they don't ask question why would the nas want to read your e-mail to your grandma? >> how much tangible intelligence that was useful did we get out of those acts of surveillance? the answer is really unclear, and i think it's unclear enough that we've seen everyone from the white house to...

Seemed dismissive of snowden. >> no, i'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker. >> since then ed snowden has presented himself as a defender of the people's privacy appearing at south by southwest and lobbing softball questions about surveillance to president putin who took the time to say that he, too, is a former spy. snowden's emerges ens has put a face on what can broadly be called the hacker culture. one that's operating behind the scenes of american life, including increasingly inside the federal government. the question is the government putting too much trust in t...

The whole establishment, if you will, wouldn't be so up at arms but he took, he stole, let's use the right words for it, an enormous amount of data and spilled it out there, and we still don't know the exact consequences of it. i know glenn any second is going to say show me exactly what the harm is to national security, but you know and i know that that's the issue. you can't actually always show the harm. it's not like giving the name of a spy and the next thing you know, he's executed. there is a gray unknowable area here, and i just find both his attitude, which i called insufferable and i...