Snowden's contribution to the future chances for freedom's survival is immense and he is a hero in the Objectivist sense of what that word means.

He did the right thing. With Bildeberg controlling the media, what chance was there of getting the information out. With NSA spying on all of us, the Internet was out. If he had stayed in the US, he could have been one of those convenient suicides we saw during prior administrations. I don't think any country was naive enough to think we were not spying on them. Going back to England and the Echelon spying during Clinton, they should be wise to our methods by now. Did any of us really doubt that what we do was also b eing scrutinized? I don't even feel good about OnStar, which can listen in on you.

When I was growing up I looked to the list of names published for a Nobel and saw the names I had read about and from in the pages of Scientific American, National Geographic and a very few and only the most brilliant from the headlines of newspapers.

How far this once great award has fallen. Despots and traitors.
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Mr. Snowden is should lnot be a candidate for the Peace Prixe anymore than President Obama should have won it. Neither had contributed to the Peace of the world when nominated and Obama certainly had not contributed since.
Mr Snowden stole information and made it public and worse provided it to know political adversaries of the US in not military enemies of the US.
There were ways to have spread the word about the NSA and its activities without endangering the United State. There is an Inspector General he could have gone to. There are congressional committees he could have gone to. He chose instead to blast it in the news papers and to frogein governments.
These may not have been as effective as leaking to the press and our "Friends" but they would have been legal ways to get the information out.