[Peaker]

He didn't say he wasn't a criminal. He said that out of two pieces of information:

* He violated the law (negative) * He exposed secret domestic surveillance by the government (positive)

They chose to highlight the negative, rather than the positive.

Purportedly went online on Monday? No. That wasn't the right word to use there.

Of course the abusive quotes can be interpreted that way, but there are other words that could be put in quotes because they too came from other sources. They chose to put 'abusive' in quotes but not 'national security initiatives', for example.

His summary is not emotionally charged at all - he shows how the same information can be worded in ways that highlight the positive or negative aspects. And it is clear what CNN did, to an extreme.