Personally, the only people I believe are those who are always right. For instance, Kernighan and Ritchie talk about the 'register' keyword in C. All very well, but I heard that one day Brian Kernighan said he'd brew a pot of coffee and just forgot. I'm not sure I can trust him so I never use that keyword. Too risky.
Maybe if they would annotate who did which section. I bet Ritchie would never have done this.
>It’s also unrelated to his claims about US agencies and US democracy
Definitely related, he used the run up to the war to dunk on US agencies' predictions saying they were war mongering.
Not even two weeks before the war he tweeted: "There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war."
Can you explain how US media pushed Putin to war in the run up to the war rather than just reporting very credible intel from US agencies? Which appears to be a crime in Snowden's eyes.
Why must he be a saint? He did more than most will do their entire lives already.