Yes, Snowden needs to face charges and then make his defense as a whistleblower. He might get some leniancy for thinking he was a whistleblower, but won't deserve any for the damage he did.
Exactly. What is the crime for reporting information? But the gov’t can still make your life miserable. They can lock you up without bail and without trial. And if they ever do give you a trial they control what you can say and can’t say.
our legal system has become 3rd world.