Yes. On the other hand, the NSA illegally spying on Americans is bad. You don't need to know the motivations, it's just bad. You cannot build a robust democracy

Yes. On the other hand, the NSA illegally spying on Americans is bad. You don't need to know the motivations, it's just bad. You cannot build a robust democracy on top of such a shaky foundation. They can claim "Snowden was a KGB mole!" but if they hadn't been doing such nasty things, there wouldn't have been something so damaging for the mole (or a disgruntled ex employee, whatever) to disclose. There will always be dirty laundry to disclose of course -- nobody is 100% clean -- but this was major. This is classic "shooting the messenger".