Intelligence

The way people glorify him is horrible. There was one pretty questionable NSA program that I agree needed review, but Snowden didn't just bring that to light; he dumped giant gobs of information on legitimate national security targets, collected properly and legally by our security forces through the appropriate channels. He very literally gave terrorists and terrorist organizations a view into the information we had on them and how they were being tracked, and they acted on that information to make it harder to track them. Then he went off to Russia.

He's a traitor, not a hero.