Stipulated: Russia is letting Snowden stay to diminish America in some way

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15. The Prism program, contrary to initial reports,

primarily involves surveillance of foreign targets. A warrant is required for any domestic surveillance. And so Prism, based on what we know so far, isn't against the 4th amendment.

But in any case, it is quite clear that Snowden unlawfully took classified documents and shared them with Greenwald.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983)[1] is an American who leaked details of several top-secret United States and British government mass surveillance programs to the press.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

U.S. government officials have disputed some aspects of the Guardian and Washington Post stories and have defended the program by asserting it cannot be used on domestic targets without a warrant, that it has helped to prevent acts of terrorism, and that it receives independent oversight from the federal government's executive, judicial and legislative branches.