I can't imagine how he must have felt, giving up everything he had (which was considerable), risking his life to let the US population know their rights were be

I can't imagine how he must have felt, giving up everything he had (which was considerable), risking his life to let the US population know their rights were being abused and their freedom endangered, but even after all of that we've done nothing to change the situation and a sizable percentage of the population see Snowden himself as the problem. To our credit, we elected a man who promised to end spying on American citizens, but he ended up going back on is word and making it worse and no other presidential candidate since has spoken out against the NSA like he did.