Snowden leaks have permanently damaged the NSA
Found on Baltimore Sun on Wednesday, 05 March 2014
The country is engaged in painful soul-searching about whether NSA has gone too far and whether we should invite leaker Edward Snowden back for a ticker-tape parade. On the latter, Mr. Snowden has set the agency back perhaps a decade or more through the unrelenting disclosure of sources and methods.
The real question is whether the agency could pull off another major SIGINT success like it did after 9/11. Probably not. Mr. Snowden has done enough damage. A few changes in the law based on challenges from numerous groups and senators will do the rest.
Nice propaganda attempt. There's nobody to blame for all this but the NSA. Snowden has done no damage; instead, he helped everybody but the NSA. In fact, he might also have helped them too.