[Nedusa]

If your elected Government allowed its security agencies to massively exceed their brief and resort to tactics there were immoral, unethical and borderline criminal then wouldn't you want to know about it.

All Govt agencies have to be accountable and all Govts have to be accountable to the people who elect them. They do our work we control them, WE the people that is the basis of democracy.

So if the NSA or the CIA engage in clandestine nefarious activities that affect the lives of millions of people then we NEED to know about it, otherwise we start going down the road of Secret Govt, Fascist/Police state.

So No Edward Snowden is NOT a traitor he is a very brave man who put his own personal freedom and the safety of himself and possibly his family at risk for the greater good.

I hope he finds asylum and can eventually live a reasonably normal life.