Edward Snowden, Hero or Traitor?

[Fisherking]

Apparently so: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-marry-me.html

So - Traitor, and now international laughing stock.

It is fine that you choose to follow the axiom, My Country Right or Wrong in assessing his guilt.

I, on the other hand, and a larger number of Americans, tend to follow Mark Twain’s definition “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”

Snowden obviously betrayed that government but he did a service to the American People and the rest of the world in pointing up those abuses.

The rest of what he has done or said is of little weight beside that.

It was not anything some of us did not know or some of us may have suspected but he brought us the proof of those activities which could possibly stop or slow down their abuses.