Madeleine Albright: I Think Edward Snowden Is a ‘Narcissistic Exhibitionist’

“I think he did incredible damage. I think he's a traitor and he has damaged us internationally. I am very glad, however, that there is a discussion going on, because I think there's a lot of paradoxical aspects to it. I coined a new term which is there's cyber exhibitionism. People put an incredible amount of information themselves out into the system, and they think that's kind of neat and fun, and at the same time they criticize the police and FBI in Boston for not having found the marathon killer ahead of time. And so we don't know what we want. We do believe that privacy is essential to us, but at the same time we are concerned about terrorists. So I think there's a big discussion to be had. Snowden had the possibility of going to the intelligence committees. He is not what one would call a whistleblower. There’s a system for doing that. He is a narcissistic exhibitionist who has hurt the United States in a very bad way.”