There's a chasm here on CC about Snowden, but I'm with you. Manning leaked sensitive information about our national defense to Wikileaks. He's a ****ing traitor. Where they get this whistleblowing shit is beyond me. Snowden revealed to the American people that we were being spied on by our government. I don't consider that treason. ...but to each his own.
On Snowden, the influence of the jug-eared muslim forces people on the edges of the left and right to reverse their philosophies in order to support Snowden's attacks on American security.
For a conservative to be a Snowden apologist, he has to suddenly discover that inviolate right to privacy DUmmies use to justify the slaughter of unborn infants and sodomy. Only overwhelming, justifiable contempt for the jug-eared muslim, who is temporarily in charge of NSA, makes that possible.
For a DUmpmonkey to be a Snowden apologist is much easier, since like Snowden and the democrat party he already hates the United States. But the DUmmy also has to carefully, gently oppose his messiah, and it isn't easy to do that and avoid heresy charges.
I think the majority between those two extremes sees Snowden as a traitor to the United States. Snowden's place on the spectrum of heroism is is clearly demonstrated by spilling America's most closely-held secrets to the Chinese, and then taking asylum in Putin's new Soviet Union. If Snowden's a hero, then the Rosenbergs should get posthumous Medals of Freedom.