Five overlooked costs of the NSA surveillance flap - CSMonitor.com

Five overlooked costs of the NSA surveillance flap - CSMonitor.com: "The NSA-Snowden episode has undermined US arguments on the international stage in favor of wide access to information via the Internet and against censorship and government surveillance of citizens, experts in the US say."

If Snowden didn't bring it to light someone else would have (especially given NSA's lax security standards) so including Snowden in the cause is like blaming the last straw for breaking the camel's back.