Foreign Policy

Snowden claims the US collaborated with Israeli government to write Stuxnet, and he describes a British program that is even more invasive than the NSA.

German government defends close cooperation with NSA.

Regarding the US coercing European countries to force down the Bolivian president's plane in hopes of catching NSA leaker Snowden on board, we get a great description of Obama:

"Just as President Obama feigned indifference to Snowden’s fate by disdaining the prospect of "scrambling jets" to get him, he was ordering his European vassals to do just that. Beneath the cool, calm, measured tones of this above-it-all President lurks a petty, vindictive, ruthless operator, whose brazen hypocrisy is surpassed only by his sporadic tendency to indulge in reckless aggression."

True. I don't think they thought Snowden was aboard. This was about intimidation, warning South American politicians they would suffer reprisal if they offered Snowden asylum. It's to their credit that several have offered asylum anyway.

"As half of South America denounces the brazen arrogance of those Yankee imperialists – and the other half sadly nods in silent agreement – lost in the shuffle is the inexplicable error made by some nameless American official. Was it an error – or a shot across the bow? "

Now he's asking the right question.

"What the US government is apparently intent on creating is a globalized intelligence capacity with the ability to scoop up all electronic communications generated worldwide, whether telephony or online, store it, organize it, and call it up for later reference. Omniscience being the prerequisite for omnipotence, what they aspire to – and, perhaps, have gone a long way toward creating – is the ability to spy on anyone, anywhere, in real time. "

That's why it was so funny when European officials pretended to be dismayed at NSA spying.

"The Snowden case, if they should ever get their rotten hands on him, would present similar problems [as previous spying case, dropped by the government], albeit on a much larger scale. A show trial would backfire in several directions: to begin with, it would reveal more about the government’s spying apparatus than anyone in Washington wants the public to know. Aside from that, however, it would dominate the headlines for a long time to come, mobilizing opposition to the administration and its policies even as new revelations come out. And, finally, if the question of whether Snowden’s act of conscience is a crime is ever put to a jury of his peers, there’s no telling what their answer will be. Short of declaring Snowden an "enemy combatant," and hauling him up before some "military commission" consisting of David Gregory, David Brooks, and Rep. Peter King, there is no way for this administration to dispose of its growing Snowden Problem neatly and cleanly.
In capturing Snowden, his captors will find they have been captured by him – and perhaps the more far-seeing of his would-be pursuers realize that. In which case, perhaps they’ll decide everybody would be a lot better off with Snowden in Caracas, where everything he says and does takes place in the shadow of an openly "anti-American" regime."

They'll let him go to Caracas, then kill him in a car accident.