Ed Snowden’s Act Two, Part Two

The slippery morality of whistleblowing

It was inevitable that Edward Snowden would be the toast of the town after disgorging his sensational secrets to The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald, documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras and The Washington Post’s Barton Gellman.

Daniel Ellsberg, that dean of all whistleblowers, was similarly feted and fetishized by the media, but he possesses such palpable int…