Hero or traitor, this story of how Snowden, using the code name Verax, made contact with reporters is destined for classic status. He is a real professional (and I vote for hero).
The source had instructed his media contacts to come to Hong Kong, visit a particular out-of-the-way corner of a certain hotel, and ask — loudly — for directions to another part of the hotel. If all seemed well, the source would walk past holding a Rubik’s Cube.
He apparently never let his girlfriend—who describes herself as a “world-traveling, pole-dancing superhero”— know what he was up to, and just disappeared. She seems like a real sweetheart in fact. Well, whatever it takes to save us, that’s what super heroes do.