Like Greenwald, Edward Snowden was a right-wing Libertarian who supported Ron Paul. He actually vilified whistleblowers leaking secret Bush admin plots & defended covert intelligence ops. He became an anti-secrecy activist only after Obama, whom he hated, got into the White House



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