Hillary Clinton: 'I can never condone' Snowden's whistleblowing


Speaking in an interview with Re/Code on Tuesday, presumed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton expressed disapproval of Edward Snowden and continued to obfuscate her views of the NSA.
Asked if the whistleblower is a traitor for exposing the NSA's invasive mass surveillance on American citizens, Clinton replied "I could never condone what he did. He stole millions of documents, and the great irony is the vast majority of those documents had nothing to do with civil liberties."
Earlier this week Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who worked most closely with Snowden to bring his revelations to light, said that "Dem efforts to hand Hillary Clinton the nomination without contest are so depressing," because Clinton is "the ultimate guardian of bipartisan status quo corruption, and no debate will happen if she’s the nominee against some standard Romney/Bush-type GOP candidate."
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
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