Editor,This is a good article but wrong questions and comparisons. Edward Snowden is interfering with classified CIA documents that can destabilise the whole world if nothing is urgently done to prevent further leaks. For me, this is an act of treason; and believe me, when the United States security is shaken, we also indirectly feel the consequences.When something like this happens in Africa, the first thing we will do is to manhunt such people to the extent of persecuting them simply because we don’t have technology and national security agencies. And for the countries that have those security institutions, they are mainly for the protection of individuals in power – not in the interests of their countries.They use this power to bend the law, kill, and imprison citizens at will. So, with all your good word questioning US while using African countries where governments operate on personal gains, I am afraid to say that you’re totally wrong. If the CIA is spying on its allies in EU, it isn’t doing it in the interests of Barack Obama, but for American people both politically and economically. John, Kigali, RwandaReaction to Joseph Rwagatare’s opinion, "The Snowden affair, hypocrisy and Africa”, (The New Times, July 2)