Analyzing Snowden's revelations as a conflict of asymmetric courage.

One detail in the article superficially appears to be an error. It says that the US security state has no law. In fact, it does have law at its disposal. It has plenty of laws, designed to allow it to spy, imprison and even kill effectively without limit, and cut off all roads for us to find out what it is doing (except with the help of leakers such as Snowden), let alone control it. However, this amounts to a declaration of lawlessness, so that detail is correct when not interpreted with rigid literalism.