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>> let me put that question to you, john. also let me just say, the people who support edward snowden say look, if he wanted to give secrets to the chinese or the russians he could have done that, he could have been paid to do that. this is not the kind of person he is. they say he was standing on principle, he released it to the guardian, the washington post. and that was a very thought out thing. it was not what he's been charged with, which is espionage. >> i think it's pretty interesting, anderson, that his story starts off with kind of a plausible story art. he wants to warn americans abo...

Principle, he released it to the guardian, the washington post. and that was a very thought out thing. it was not what he's been charged with, which is espionage. >> i think it's pretty interesting, anderson, that his story starts off with kind of a plausible story art. he wants to warn americans about the lack of privacy they have in this big machine that's vacuuming up data. and are they aware of it? then he ends up in hong kong, and starts pulling things out of the hat. he says the nsa hacked into this particular university in hong kong and they were looking for this and that, and they comp...