When has int'l law (or The Hague) been a factor to how the US conducts business?
Why should it be a factor now?
I'm mostly pissed that European nations simply obey
They have to. We know their secrets. Apparently.
Seriously, I feel like they're trying to make an example of Snowden, but that that's just causing a PR nightmare that really does the opposite of what they want it to. Unless, of course, there's a deeper conspiraceh than that, even, and we're supposed to be sympathizing with Snowden. Hard to know where paranoia ends and reality begins.
If he
himself hadn't been so much in the public eye from the beginning, he would probably be dead by now; that, I do believe. Now, it would be waaaaaay too much of a PR problem if he "disappeared."