From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

On Friday in Davos, Russia announced that it would be extending asylum to master leaker Edward Snowden.

On Thursday, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board,

an independent federal watchdog,

released a thick report deeming the NSA's bulk collection of phone records,

revealed by Snowden, illegal, and calling for it to stop.

Meanwhile, a new Pew Research Center poll found Americans taking an increasingly dim view of

those NSA surveillance programs since the big reveals about them leaked last June. But how

passionate are we? Pew found that 91% of us heard nothing or just a little about President

Obama's recently announced changes in the programs,

and roughly three quarters of us believe that they won't matter anyway.

But we do seem to have strong opinions about former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Here's Representative Mike Rogers speaking to David Gregory on Sundays Meet the Press.

This was a thief who we believe had some help, who stole information.

The vast majority had nothing to do with privacy.

Our Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines have been incredibly harmed by the data that he has taken with him.

Then Rogers took the gloves off. I don't think it was a G-WIS luck event that he has taken with him. Then Rogers took the gloves off.

I don't think it was a G-Wiz luck event that he ended up in Moscow.

Now, Rogers' views cleave closely to that pew pole that found your view of Snowden can be predicted in large part by your age.

People over 50 are far more likely to think that Snowden harmed the

public interest. The younger you are, the more you approve of what he did. However, Pew Senior

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