Did he reveal covert agents, blow covers or endanger lives?
His revelations were meant to put a lie to the extra-constitutional activities of the federal gov't.
Lastly, what was released by Snowden and what was released by the anti-constitutional forces (D & R) within our gov't to smear him?
“His revelations were meant to put a lie to the extra-constitutional activities of the federal gov’t.”
If that were the case, he would have limited his data dumps and leaks to strictly domestic spying.
That’s not the case, he leaked out two other kinds of information.
1. Intel info on activities related to adversaries
3. Intel info on activities related to allies