New York Times ignites debate over Snowden punishment
In a New Year’s Day editorial in The New York Times argued that given the value of the classified documents on domestic spying stolen from the National Security Agency, Edward Snowden has done the nation a great service and should not face “a life of permanent exile, fear and flight.” The Times wrote that in conducting mass surveillance of phone calls, the N.S.A. broke several federal privacy laws and undermined encryption sytems of the Internet