I believe that news organization absolutely had a duty to publish the classified documents that he provided. If not for instances like this one, there is no accountability in terms of government. Snowden was being charged with espionage, which essentially means that there is no way for him to legally be absolved from his “crime,” whether the government was commiting its own crimes against the public or not. This type of hipocrisy needed to be exposed to the public. Unfortunately, however, I do not believe that the exposure of these documents to the public did anyone any justice. By that, I mean, I don’t think that the NSA will change its ways, and I don’t believe that Americans will have any more privacy due to this situation. Instead, perhaps, the NSA will better cover their own tracks in the future.