Comment Also Snowden's Fault (Score 1) 207
And of course they are blaming the economic damage on getting caught as opposed to, well, what they were doing.
Of *course* they are. They're responsible for the consequences--but they also are right, Snowden's whistleblowing was also a cause. He has (with them) done probably billions of dollars of harm to the US tech industry.
Without him, it wouldn't have happened. Without them, it wouldn't have happened. They both did it for motives that they believed justified the cost.