[jmscharff2]

I can buy that he saw a lot of things that made him mistrust the government. What I have a problem with is that it seems as though he took jobs and looked for positions that would give him access to even more data. If he was really just working and saw this stuff that is one thing to go in and try and steal it is another, whether or not he did the right thing is up for debate. Selling USA secrets to other governments is espionage no matter how you slice it. If it was just leak it to the USA and the world at the same time then sure I could buy the whistleblower if it is go run and hide in Russia or China and sell information that is a different story. I dont think anyone has all the facts about this though.

[toyg]

He didn't sell anything to any government. If you can prove otherwise, please do; but I note that not even the almighty US intelligence apparatus going into overdrive like a wounded animal could point to anything indicating any of Snowden's statements were false at any point in time. If you have better sources at your disposal than the US President, by all means feel free to share them with us.

He's stuck in Russia because no other government wants to compromise their relationship with the US, to our eternal shame (as in "us citizens of non-US countries"); and because if he had remained in the US, he would have been renditioned in Guantanamo on day 1.