i asked henry shelley and then halbrook.-- lynn i think they're assuming this is going to blow over.general, the american media has not held their feet to the fire. michael hayden, the nsa director, he basically says that he wanted to put edward snowden on a government kill list. he said that was a joke. he is not quite as bloodthirsty as james woolsey, the former cia director who said last november after the paris terrorist attacks that mr. snowden "should suffer death by hanging, electrocution is too good for him." so when you have a government like that who has that kind of activity to whistleblowers, it is all the more important that, as snowden said yesterday reacting to john's a story in the guardian, snowden said, we need to recognize whistleblowers and basically lived them up in the public debate because without that, without the press doing that, the government will, by either active or de facto hostilities, they will take people like john crane down. and our democracy will be lessened. we will not know the nsa is spying on all of us had not edward snowden decided to go outs