A 2016 article put out by Stratford includes discussing Snowden as an example of a, quote, internal threat. In 2013, Stratford founder George Friedman wrote an op-ed in Forbes titled, quote, Keeping the NSA in perspective, where he argues that the spying programs revealed by Snowden aren't really that big a deal. Quote, the revelations about PRISM are far from new or interesting in themselves. The NSA was created with a charter to do these things. And given the state of technology, it was inevitable that the NSA would be capturing communications around the world. Many leaks prior to Snowden showed that the NSA was doing this. It would have been more newsworthy if the leak revealed that the NSA had not been capturing all the communications. It seems like Stratford has a bit of a not super into Snowden streak.