You basically answered my question with this:

Steered where? Into the pedestrians on the sidewalk or the pedestrian on the other side of the cop car?

We have an amazing ability as Americans to conflate any sort of fame or notoriety into wisdom, knowledge or authority.

Snowden was a whistleblower that uncovered some seriously shady shit the US government was doing (That was against public Policy, BTW, hence his argument that policy doesn’t matter). Great, I am glad…

Who said us commenters or this author is an authority on the matter? No one? Ok.

What is so infuriating about Snowden is that his infamy has been conflated with intelligenc by certain elements of the media. Just because he stole documents from the NSA makes him neither principled nor an authority on the important issues in our society. I think I feel even more strongly about his lack of moral…