This is cynical, yes. But it's useful when arguing against public-job hating conservatives (Snowden

[rpannier]

(with the aid of Brooks)

A loner who shut out his family, was rude to neighbors, who never completed high school, never completed community college, gets a 200,000 a year job at an agency responsible for protecting our nations secrets and security and then turns around and releases them!
Yep, those private firms are certainly more efficient. I mean he only had access to NSA data-mining information (spying), the names of NSA agents, and god knows what else he knows (apparently he has it with him).
Score another victory for the private sector

on note: I'm glad he released this stuff, I really am. But, I'm doubly glad that I can get some political fire out of it.
Yes, that probably makes me a bad person. But I will use it