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Our system offers legal options to disgruntled government employees and contractors. They can take advantage of federal whistle-blower laws; they can bring their complaints to Congress; they can try to protest within the institutions where they work. But Snowden did none of this. Instead, in an act that speaks more to his ego than his conscience, he threw the secrets he knew up in the air—and aided our enemies. He sold / bartered info that wasn't released. Info that would mean little to the public but would be of value to our enemies.
Snowden is no hero. He's a traitor wearing a Libertarian mask.