Edward Snowden: Hero or Traitor?

The National Security establishment is terrified that Snowden holds a "doomsday archive" that he could release if he were to be captured. The question over whether the whistleblower is a hero or a traitor is being heavily debated in light of a recent court decision that put some of the provisions of the domestic spying program into question. 

Director of the ACLU’s Privacy and Technology department Ben Wizener appeared on CNN to say “this is a good day for Edward Snowden.”

Wizener believes that yesterdays court ruling from a federal judge appointed by George W. Bush which challenged the NSA’s blanket data collection program is “what happens when important legal issues are decided in open courts, where both sides get to make legal arguments. Rather than in secret courts where the government alone gets to present arguments to a court. This is, I think, a good day for Edward Snowden. This is what he had in mind. He saw programs. He doubted their legality. He saw that the oversight mechanisms had failed. That secret courts had become a rubber stamp. That congressional committees had been enabling rather than, than actually exercising oversight. And so he brought the information to the public through journalists and he brought it to the lawyers who brought this case.”

Read more at TLR: This is a good day for Edward Snowden | The Libertarian Republic http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/good-day-edward-snowden/#ixzz2nqXaJXxJ