Snowden collected evidence of the NSA's systemic violations of the Fourth Amendment.
Well, there is this one other problem with Snowden. He basically emptied out the whole library of documentation. If he’d had ten accusations to make and copied forty documents to prove his accusations....we might approve of his tactics. But in this case....he copied literally millions of publications and says he’ll protect the vast number but just every four to six weeks....expose something that he thinks is of vital interest. This could all continue on....for years...for the vital interest concept of Snowden. At this point....it’s more of a comedy than an effort of an honest guy.
I suspect when January of 2017 arrives and if it’s Trump....there’s going to be this sixty-day count-down where Trump and Putin meet, and Putin will grin and say it’s time for Snowden to be handed over. Snowden will stand there in disbelief, and discover that he was simply a pawn of Putin in this game of ‘chess’ with Obama.