I didn’t call him a hero. I said he did what many of us begged for and some of us turned on him will all the grace of a liberal.
The bottom line is that anyone here saying at this moment, that he is a traitor, stand up proudly and tell the world that YOU would trust your life/future/family to the creatures now running the GOP for protection.
If you can’t or won’t, you might want to ask yourself again why he did what he did.
Ok, fair enough. I would agree that calling him a traitor would be overdoing it.
That said, he has done things that make uncomfortable questions in uncomfortable places, especially given that national defense/security has not been questioned much until now. That is where I have an issue, since this cuts into any legitimate work that the NSA may do to prevent harm from groups that oppose anyone from the United States.
For what I see of it, he couldn’t handle doing the job, knowing that it put too much stress against his personal values. It’s not something that isn’t exactly unheard of in that line of work, but it is exceptionally rare for someone to go as far as Snowden.
Comfort is going to be something foreign to him for the rest of his life. I hope he understands that, since he will eventually have only one companion that he can trust.