><i>So long as they insist that Snowden is a narcissistic criminal and possible traitor, they have no choice but to admit that the NSA collected and stored intimate photos, emails, and chats belonging to totally innocent Americans and safeguarded them so poorly that a ne'er-do-well could copy them onto thumb drives.</i><p>Pretty tight logic. Obvious now, but somehow never occurred to me that the more strenuously they argue against Snowden's motives and character, the more they acknowledge their own dysfunction.