It's not actually the heroic Edward Snowden who publicizes the information. In this instance it was the New York Times. If the USA criminals who break the laws of the constitution and play Calvinball have a problem, they could go to the offices of the New York Times and tell them they should not be releasing said information.
The New York Times has got constitutional rights and high-priced lawyers who will explain the USA constitution to the NSA and Barack Obama and Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett and Victoria I Lost Crimea Nuland and Clapper the Crook and Lerner the unlearned and the rest of the gangsters who have managed to get their evil-doing paws on the levers of power.
I wonder how USA military professionals feel being jerked around by those self-dealing kleptocrats. Not just jerked around but sent on wild goose chases based on falsehoods such as "We are scared of Saddam's WMDs which can hit New York in 40 minutes, and he destroyed the Twin Towers so you guys go and kill and be killed". Several years later, and sharia law and barbarity continue more so that when Saddam was in charge, which is not to say that Saddam being in charge was a good thing, especially as he had the hideously evil Uday off the leash.
Thanks to Putin releasing the secret conversations of Victoria Nuland, we heard how the USA was busy in Ukraine trying to effect political power to suit themselves rather than the Ukrainians. Putin spoke not at all and carried a big stick, resolving the situation in a sensible way, with no shock and awe being needed and in fact in accordance with civilized democratic process in Crimea and in Russia. The local yokels voted to join Russia rather than stay in the mess of Ukraine. Looks like a fair enough outcome.
Putin should phone Obama and say, "I won, you lost", as Obama says to people. Obama and co now think that "sanctions" are a good idea. Perhaps it doesn't occur to them that Russia has a very large border and substantial trade opportunities with China. China will no doubt be interested in having association with Russia since they are both strategic competitors of USA. As is every other entity on Earth which isn't actually the USA. Everyone is a strategic competitor of everyone else. That's just how life is. Obama can pivot to Asia, twist to Russia, pirouette to the middle east, rotate to latin America, about face to Africa, spin to Europe, and strip search Indian women who find they broke some minimum wage law, throwing in a free body cavity search just for fun.
Decades ago, we had a prime minister, Keith Holyoake who made an amusing [unintentionally] comment. "We will stand back to back and shoulder to shoulder marching in the same general direction". Oddly, Google seems to not have a reference to it [other than quoting me]. There was also a painting of the idea. Obama, Cameron, Hollande, Merkel and co are doing that.
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