Regardless of Snowden's personal character, the simple facts of the matter are: 1) The NSA was illegally and unconstitutionally spying on US citizens without w

Regardless of Snowden's personal character, the simple facts of the matter are: 1) The NSA was illegally and unconstitutionally spying on US citizens without warrants. 2) The NSA and other intelligence agencies explicitly lied about this to congress and other elected/appointed bodies responsible for overseeing the activities of these agencies. See, in particular, James Clapper perjuring himself before congress. 3) Without Snowden or someone similar leaking this information to the public, we never would have found out about these blatant illegal and unconstitional acts, since everyone with the power to do anything about it was either complicit or ignorant (see point 2).