Its sad, and telling, that the majority of people in this country still believe that he's a traitor, should be punished, and that the govt is right and should be allowed to abuse power.<p>People actually believe that someone revealing information about crimes is more guilty than the criminals. Hypocricy at its finest.
OT - It would be nice to add what section of the paper this comes from to the HN title, in this case Opinion. People see the headline and the website and may assume that this is a New York Times article approved by the NYT Editors.
It doesn't matter.<p>He's either "protected" in Russia or dead. I seriously doubt he could return to the US without suffering some horrible traumatic body-and-evidence-destroying "accident" ...
Oh, please. Hard to feel pity for him, when whistleblowers face threat of being murdered here in Russia. And Snowden has the "threat" of due process. How awful.