> - Snowden did enormous damage to US and allies with his indiscriminate distribution of classified information That would be something like "telling the polic

> - Snowden did enormous damage to US and allies with his indiscriminate distribution of classified information That would be something like "telling the police about your abusive husband hurts your family". Yes, it did hurt intelligence agencies and their beneficiaries. That is not the same as "the US". The victims of the indiscriminate surveillance were largely American and are much more plentiful than the perpetrators.