Edward Snowden Hero or not

In the previous few years many official documents pertaining to different governments or other state institutions have been leaked by individuals working alone or by organizations like Wiki leaks. Every time classified official document are disclosed the whistle blowers are branded as a traitor or a spy who wants to harm the national interests of the country in focus.

Edward Joseph Snowden is one such example, a former american technical contractor at NSA(National Security Agency) and a former CIA employee. Snowden branded as traitor by some is responsible for leaking information relevant to various highly classified Surveillance programs of US and UK Governments, PRISM and Tempora being one of them. So naturally as expected Snowden was charged with espinoge and stealing of Government's property in United States of America. Question that one should ask , Is Snowden a whistle blower or a traitor ? 

Malala Traitor or Brave Hero !
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Are there any Diplomatic Complexities in Edward Snowden's Asylum Request?

No matter whether in the end he appears to be a traitor or a Whistle blower, either way he will still get prosecuted in US. Right now Mr. Snowden's top priority is to get asylum somewhere safe. He requested asylum from many countries himself, at the present moment he is stranded in Russia waiting for a reaction from Russian government to his asylum request. In my opinion he should not be treated as a traitor and dealt with under America's World war I espinoge act, I mean after all its not like US is at war in that old way, World has changed its Internets era. Snowden must be treated as a whistle blower if he ever appears before court in US. 

I for one am going to congratulate Mr. Snowden for the disclosure, it is not because of his success at all the popularity he has gained but because i do know and believe that it must have been a very hard and tough choice to go public about all those surveillance programs. Knowing that one will be most likely branded as a traitor to his country and prosecuted for that but still doing the right thing with going public that really dose make Edward Snowden a hero to me!