The Edward Snowden Fan Club got a special bonus this week. The man who stole the secret operations of the U.S. National Security Agency and shared them with the world showed up on Moscow television to interrogate Vladimir Putin about citizen privacy.

Well, OK, he didn't really interrogate the Russian president. It was more like an appearance on a Russian version of "The Colbert Report," with Mr. Putin playing the role of a mock civil libertarian.

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