Well who is serious? Everyone in DC grandstands, that's how you get quoted. Here are a couple from non politicians: Jeremy Bash, a former chief counsel to the

Well who is serious? Everyone in DC grandstands, that's how you get quoted. Here are a couple from non politicians: Jeremy Bash, a former chief counsel to the House Intelligence Committee: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52158315/t/former-cia-chief-staff-snowden-not-whistleblower/ http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52158315/t/former-cia-chief-staff-... > “The efforts to make him into a hero, I think, are going to fall flat,” said Bash. “He’s not a whistle blower. You don’t break the law, steal documents and then make a run for the border.” Gabriel Schoenfeld, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/snowdens-hypocrisy-on-russia/2014/02/07/23c403c2-8f51-11e3-b227-12a45d109e03_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/snowdens-hypocrisy-o... > "Whatever the answer, Snowden’s silence about the quasi-dictatorship where he has taken sanctuary is telling. It is yet more evidence, if evidence were needed, that he is not a whistleblower at all"