[logic101.net]

hostile and semi-hostile governments

THAT was my key point. As to your point, the only “criminal” actions we know of were against the American people, not Red China, Russia, etc. When he started giving them our secrets he became a traitor.

Would you have supported the traitors who gave the USSR our nuclear secrets decades ago? How about info on our drone program now? Or how our subs can evade their sonar? Or our planes their radar? We were doing, as far as any of us know, nothing “criminal” overseas. Can you imagine THIS “President” doing active spying on any hostile nation? I can’t! Even so, spying against a hostile nation is NOT a crime.

What “crimes” did Snowden expose to Putin? Or Red China? Detail them for me please. You seem to think you are an authority on this and know things that the rest of us do not. Please enlighten us.

[OneWingedShark]

He didn't expose them to China or Russia, he fled to places where his safety would be more assured than it would if he stayed here.
If you believe that he would have been safe here after exposing, or attempting to expose, the depth of corruption in the NSA (and other 'intelligence' agencies) then I suppose that you also believe that the Benghazi incident was just tragic miscommunication and that Extortion 17 was just a tragic accident and that Fast & Furious was just a sting operation gone bad, no?