The problem with defending Snowden.

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23. One thing I haven't seen mentioned about Snowden at all

is the fact that what he did probably goes against his contract he signed. There are probably criminal penalties outlined in that contract he had to sign. By that fact alone, he has broken the law. It's one thing to leak information about what the NSA is doing in the USA but then to take and release all the information he acquired about our spy programs abroad, goes beyond being the heroic whistleblower that some are trying to paint him as.

I mean, when Valerie Plame was outed as a CIA operative, people on DU had pitchforks in hand and were calling for blood. Snowden has done basically the same thing or at least intends to if you are to believe his own words. How does that make him a heroic whistleblower if he's endangering the lives of operatives all over the world. We're not talking just one person here (and that was bad enough).

What the NSA is doing to American citizens is deplorable but Snowden is no poster boy. He's committed/committing treason by divulging classified secrets to other countries.