If this is Ed Snowden’s girlfriend, we can probably safely put to bed the angle of a non-US girlfriend as encouraging his leak of NSA secrets.

In other leak-related news, David Brooks gives a thoughtful sociological description of Snowden. I’m sure now that US security agencies have had their surveillance structure splashed all over the Internet, the Chinese and Russians will be soon to follow.

That’s how it work, doesn’t it? Where is the Assange and Snowden of Russia and China?