It's a sad day because a citizen of our nation decided he needed to go to a foreign journalist instead of one of our own to break this story.
Glenn Greenwald is a US citizen.
Glenn Greenwald is a US citizen.
2. He works for Guardian US, a US company based in New York.
3. According to the editor, it's actually easier for the Guardian to publish stories on this topic through their US subsidiary, rather than the UK, because free speech protections are stronger in the US, so the US connection is very important to them and they view themselves as a global media operation now (just moved to a .com domain for example).
The point I am trying to make is that Snowden took this story to a few local, bona-fide, 100% US-owned/operated/associated well-known media outlets and they passed.
He went to a UK-associated news outlet and got published.
When you're done focusing on the most irrelevant part of my post, please look closer and see if you can discern a forest amongst the trees.
Who is forced to live abroad, due to DOMA.
(That may not be quite what OP was trying to say, but it's worth mentioning).