Quote:I pretty much assumed all this had been going on for quite a while.I don't like it and think it's pretty despicable be spied on by your own government en masse. I don't think he's either a traitor nor a hero. I think he was a whisteblower. There will always be a need for whisteblowers. Bringing to attention to average Joe American what a lot of people assumed was already going on was a good thing though nothing will likely come from it. 

 

Kind of my thoughts as well, I can't call the guy a traitor if what he did was expose unconstitutional over reach by the federal government, but at the same time I can't consider him a patriot when he ran off to China and then Russia.

 

That said if he hadn't ran off to China or Russia and stayed here to face whatever chargers they would bring against him (assuming he wasn't just "taken" out) would that change his standing for anyone?

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