"I assert that, whether someone agrees or not, Snowden was doing something that was actually right." Yes, Snowden did 'something' that was right. But Snowden

"I assert that, whether someone agrees or not, Snowden was doing something that was actually right." Yes, Snowden did 'something' that was right. But Snowden also did 'other things' that were wrong. Snowden released information on how the NSA spies on adversaries, like Putin, who has 3 000 nuclear warheads pointed at us. There is no 'public good' in that information, it's basically treason. Which is the odd paradox about the Snowden revelations - there was a lot of info that arguably was in the 'public good'. But if you save a baby and kill a baby in the same day ... you still go to jail. The fact that Snowden released tons of data that had little to do with NSA domestic surveillance really changes the tone and nature of his crime, and it's not good to see so many come to his defence because he also 'saved a baby' the time that he 'killed a baby'. It really ads an odd dimension to the story.