There’s lots I don’t know here..
At first blush, he doesn’t strike me quite like Bradley Manning or Julian Assange.
I was in junior high when Daniel Ellsberg did his thing. I did attend some Senate Watergate Hearings as part of a high school summer class.
Treason and treachery are in the eye of the beholder. There is no obligation to follow a “legal” order, if it violates the Constitution, and there is certainly no obligation to follow an illegal order.
The military and government service predicate on loyalty and integrity.
One without the other is meaningless.
The Daily Mail had a quote by Snowden (I can't find the article right now) something to the effect that we are going to have to decide what kind of world we want to live in.
The day BEFORE, BO gave a speech using almost identical words.
This bothers me.
What if Snowden is playing a role? What is the end game? Cancel out the NSA data so that only the secret BO database exists?
Oh and the girlfriend thing is over the top.