Using hero in this kind of context is merely in the eyes of the beholder. Did you think Linda Tripp is a hero?
Context? Eyes of the beholder? Your relativist response is meaningless.
Felt was a law breaker. Tripp was not. Felt was not a hero because he was a law breaker. Tripp was a hero at the very least when she testified before the grand jury about travel gate and about Clinton's sexual advances toward Kathleen Willey.
Do you disagree with that?
My point is that there are those who believe Ms. Tripp is a hero and those who believe she is a traitor. Hero is not the right word for either of them.