Director Oliver Stone cleverly tricks "Saint" Edward . . .

Rating: 10/10 (19 September 2016)

. . . SNOWDEN into revealing the total incompetence of America's CIA and NSA units. One can expect no less from Mr. Stone. He has solved the JFK Assassination. Later he blew the whistle on W.'s enabling 9-11 in order to wage a $2 trillion personal vendetta costing 5,000-plus U.S. lives and causing upwards of one million Iraqi deaths, among Oliver's many previous accomplishments. With SNOWDEN, Stone reveals that the CIA and NSA exercise nepotism in hiring Special Olympic-type kids of Washington Insiders (Edward's grandpa was an Admiral) with major brain conditions such as Ed's epilepsy to supposedly "keep us safe" when they're not too busy playing video games or fiddling with Rubik's Cubes. Stone further discloses that SNOWDEN has endangered the U.S. capacity to instantly destroy the power grids and banking systems of Japan, Germany, Australia, Mexico, and Canada the next time they decide to attack us. As Corbin, the American Patriot dude Stone presents here as both the Real Hero and Main Victim of this saga, says "Most Americans don't want Freedom--they want Security." Stone takes a stand at the end of this flick, assuring us that the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election will allow Leader Trump to "flip the switch" on ALL of the SNOWDEN computer programs from "Politically Correct" to their "Maximum Security" settings.