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The Snowden leaks did cause damage.
where are the snowdens of yesteryear?
Mr. Snowden is a coward who has chosen to run.
Was the leaker in question, Ed Snowden, was he a traitor?
Whatever you think of Edward Snowden, it took bravery to do what he did.
Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.
Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden.
Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.
I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.
The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason.
Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.
I thought this was pretty timely and it was pretty interesting [to film in Snowden].
Saving Edward Snowden from prison is one of WikiLeaks' achievements of which I am most proud.
No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.
My links to WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden mean I am treated as a threat and can't return to the U.K.
I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.
My job is to be skeptical: skeptical of people like Edward Snowden and skeptical of the U.S. government.
Snowden has demonstrated true love for his country. He has done something to improve the lives of people.
I never praised Mr. Snowden or said his actions rise to those of Mohandas Gandhi or other civil rights leaders.
Any government that likes to call themselves democratic should welcome Snowden and allow him to live in their country.
America is the freest country on the planet, but for Snowden, this isn't enough. He is a state diplomat in Snowden land.
What Edward Snowden did amounted to the greatest hemorrhaging of legitimate American secrets in the history of my nation.
I don't think Mr. Snowden woke up one day and had the wherewithal to do this all by himself. I think he was helped by others.
We should stop thinking of Snowden, to the extent that we ever were, as a hero. We should stop thinking of him as a whistleblower.
The United States should give former NSA contractor Edward Snowden immunity from prosecution in exchange for congressional testimony.
I was very happy to learn Oliver Stone had decided to make a film about Edward Snowden and believe this is a powerful and inspiring film.
What I believe is that a lot of the NSA's telephone metadata program is the result of misinformation spread by a traitor, Edward Snowden.
The NSA is already bugging everything that everybody does. Each time there's a new revelation from Snowden, you realise the extent of it.
What the Snowden scenario proved is that the weakest link is not the technology, the weakest link is the individual; we shouldn't kid ourselves.
Look at Snowden or Julian Assange. In their own way, they are free without restrictions. They are dropped in a place because of political reasons.
Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.
I've never met Snowden, I've never spoken with him personally. I mean, he's extremely smart. Very, very smart. I guess he was a lot less naive than I was.
For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.
President Obama and his successors are dependent on the 100,000-plus people inside the American intelligence community - the people Edward Snowden betrayed.
We believe Russian-American relations are broader and larger than emotions and mutual grudges, including the situation with the U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden.
Snowden has yet to tell me anything that was a fact that I have been able to rebut or that anybody in the U.S. government I have talked to has been able to rebut.
There's no prospect that the Russians are going to send Snowden back. Snowden is in the land of spy swaps now. Putin is not going to give this guy up for nothing.
The Snowden story, which won the Guardiana Pulitzer Prize, became the realisation of Rusbridger's dream of a brand-building, left-wing-uniting, global and viral story.
There are no consequences for Snowden breaking the law in Snowden's World. It's where his massively inflated ego dictates the rules and determines which he will follow.
Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don't seem to care.
It's not exactly an interview that's going on [in documentary]. I guess we do ask Edward Snowden some questions and we're recording him answering them and so on like that.
Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?
ISIS is a learning enemy, and former Deputy Director of NSA Chris Inglis says that they have gone to school on the documents released by Edward Snowden and have changed their communications practices.
If Snowden really claims that his actions amounted to genuine civil disobedience, he should go to some English language bookstore in Moscow and get a copy of Henry David Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience'.
In the end, we will never, ever be able to guarantee that there will not be an Edward Snowden or another Chelsea Manning because this is a large enterprise composed of human beings with all their idiosyncrasies.
I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.
People are rejecting the power of the elite, but individuals such as Snowden are doing so in a positive way, trying to change things for the better. He is a very intelligent man and obviously interested in electronic music.
I do not agree with what Mr. Snowden did. He has damaged American international relations and compromised our national security. He leaked classified information and may have jeopardized human lives. That must be condemned.
When I heard Edward Snowden's story, it reminded me of my mother in a strange way. She was in the French resistance from early on, 1941. At that time, the Resistance were considered troublemakers - even traitors - in France.
Edward Snowden may not be a Chinese mole, but he might as well be. He's just handed Beijing a major score, while the NSA struggles to pick up the pieces - and the rest of us pay the price in terms of future national security.