Why John Oliver Can’t Find Americans Who Know Edward Snowden’s Name (It’s Not About Snowden)

On his HBO program last night, John Oliver devoted 30 minutes to a discussion of U.S. surveillance programs, advocatinga much more substantive debate as the June 1 deadline for renewing the Patriot Act approaches (the full segment can be seen here). As part of that segment, Oliverbroadcast an interview he conducted with Edward Snowden in Moscow, and to illustrate the point that an insufficientsurveillance debate has been conducted, showed video of numerous people in Times Square saying they h...