Blake Percival may be a hero but Snowden was also a whistleblower whom our government trapped in Russia by cancelling his passport etc and getting countries he was traveling through to ban him thereby making him look like a traitor.
I agree. I would also add that prior to Percivals whistle-blower suit, he informed congress which attempted to slow walk this, because after all it was congress which outsourced the function of federal background checks to U.S.I.S. (which consisted of a corporate board of shady characters)
The media evidently were also told to stand down on reporting on this story. That is until the two issues arose, one being Snowden, and the other being the navy yard shooter. At that point they could no longer keep this story under wrap.
Since there is little to be found on this whole story, I’ve had a hard time verifying facts. But I’ve heard that after U.S.I.S. was shut down, the principle officers simply opened up another corporate system and the same shady operations continue to this day.