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What crime are we talking about? Because the surveillance programs have been sanctioned and overseen by all three branches of government. In other words, they were perfectly legal government programs.

So Snowden didn't actually whistleblow any crime. You may argue about the public right to know about these programs, and I would be friendly to that view, but Snowden stole much much much more than that, took it to China and asked us to trust him when he said he destroyed that data (though he changed his story quite a few times)... that's why he is a traitor.