You do realize that his leaks went FAR beyond discclosing what the NSA was inappropriately doing to us, into what it was appropriately doing in foreign intelligence collection, yes? Don’t get caught up in the cheer leading.
“You do realize that his leaks went FAR beyond discclosing what the NSA was inappropriately doing to us, into what it was appropriately doing in foreign intelligence collection, yes? “
How would you gain any traction for your claims that the NSA was overstepping it’s authority w/o leaking damaging material? If what he claims to have taken is true and he were a total traitor, would he not have let it all out? I wish that I could take the easy way out and simply call Snowden a traitor, but I can’t because I know my own government is dishonest and rotten right down to it’s very core. Further, that in exchange for a taxpayer-provided paycheck there are tens of thousands of our “fellow citizens” who are quite willing to abet the government’s continued abuse of the rest of us. Kinda reminds me of Germany in 1938.