Do you consider Edward Snowden a traitor? Patriot?

He's an American hero.

He is a hero but heros don't always have happy endings.

Hero

Reading the book now. Hero. But he kept saying from the start that he knew the consequences and would face them - yet he seemed to try to avoid the comsequences from day one. Not that I blame him.

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Neither... I'm indifferent, although what was done was great for the American people that actually cherish freedom

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This. We needed to know what he revealed.

100% Hero, as is Assange. The man should have statues made of him, not be Public Enemy #1.

He revealed that the government is using our mobile phones and internet service providers to spy on us every time we use them. He revealed that we use our military drones in targeted assassinations, sometimes of American citizens. He revealed that our government is absolutely violating our rights every single day.

Both... More of a Patriot though. He should do some light federal time for breaking the law but otherwise should be celebrated for what he did.

We may not know everything, but what we know enough to consider him a hero, and enough that it should have been a rallying call to gather the torches and pitchforks, but there was a new episode of the Dancing With the Stars on that night and Kanye said something crazy on twitter, so we all just forgot about it and went on living our lives.

I consider him a patriot, but come on, who didn't already know you were being spied on through your shite?