Why, because he asked questions? He's as pissed as you are about the Verizon stuff, but at the same time being smeared by shoddy journalism on the "Prism" stuff.
His questions are legit, and I have some of the same questions, but he's also doing the smearing. I don't see him being smeared.
My feeling is also that this guy leaked material that he didn't fully understand, but that it doesn't matter because he could be wrong about all of the fuzzy details and it would still be just as bad.
(Bias on the table, I know Justin).