Imagine if Edward Snowden had been in the U.S. when he leaked the NSA story. Imagine that he had turned himself in to the authorities, immediately. Imagine that his only statement would be to the effect of, "I have no comment. My revelations speak for themselves. I now place myself into the hands of the U.S. Justice System."
Would we now be talking about where HE is, and what HE's doing, rather than about the information he leaked, if that had happened?
No, he would be effectively ignored, and the information he revealed would be front and center.
But that isn't happening.
Now, the next chapter begins on the media's ignoring of the NSA, and its obsession with Edward Snowden's whereabouts.....
From Snowden's father's letter to the Attorney General:
In a letter adddressed to Attorney General Eric Holder, Bruce Fein, an attorney for Lonnie Snowden, demands that the leaker remain free prior to trial, not be subject to a gag order and and that the trial be held in a place of the former government contractor's choosing.
Failure to fulfill those requests, Fein wrote, will result in the dismissal of the prosecution.
"With these written representations and guarantee, Mr. Snowden is reasonably confident that his son could be persuaded to surrender voluntarily to the jurisdiction of the United States to face trial," Fein wrote in the letter.
Here is the full letter.