In my book, getting out to the public that the NSA is essentially scooping vasts amounts of domestic data puts Snowden's action on that one point as very Patriotic.
Our citizens have a right to know if our corrupt government is blatantly violating our Constitution.
I don't really care if he went to Hong Kong because he likely knows just how evil this government is -- that he likely couldn't trust anyone here to keep him alive to spread the reality of domestic spying by the NSA.
I guess you are quite happy to have the left have ALL electronic data on ALL Americans???
Where is it written we have to know or be informed if our government is” blantantly violating our consititution? The Constitution hasn’t been a part of the equation for years now...and all but fools understand that Snowden revealed nothing which wasn’t already fully well known...and that others had not already informed us of.
So no...he is not a Patriot...he’s ‘left’ the USA... ‘stolen’ highly intelligent material to take with him...broke the oath he took to the Constitution by revealing intelligence he has no authority to do...and then he hands these documents over to a Chinese Press.
At least that makes him a defector, a thief, and a liar...at most a traitor.