NY Times: "It is time for the United States to offer Mr. Snowden a plea bargain or some form of clemency"
[T]his is the main stream media. Kicking out story after story after story that the tinfoil hat brigade (yr. humble correspondent raises his hand) have been shouting, or mumbling to the walls, about for years if not decades. It's not just 2600 and the occasional Wired piece anymore.
It all beggars the question though: why are the spooks so hell bent for leather to suck up untold petabytes of highly detailed personal information on every man, woman, child, dog, and cat that they'd be willing to sacrifice billions of dollars of business and an entire emerging technology sector?