What gets me though is why he would so foolishly and blatantly throw himself on the sword? First off, what exactly is he saying here? That the NSA tracks phone calls? Yeah well no sh*t Sherlock, and I heard the sky is blue as well. To me I suspect his real motive is to give our enemies more leverage, so they can point fingers, so to me he is the furthest thing from a "hero". If he was the "hero" everyone claims he is, he would have remained on that job and gathered EVIDENCE of corruption, hopefully going all the way up the top - for example the Kenyan giving these agencies orders to harass conservative groups. Now THAT would make him a hero, not running away to a foreign country and stating the obvious and probably giving the Chinese a bunch of stuff as well which is why we got avowed communists like Oliver Stone calling him a "hero". Stone loves it when the US is made out to look like the bad guys...
Oliver Stone Calls NSA Leaker Edward Snowden a 'Hero'