I called this guy my hero within a minute of watching his hotel video (here in the gulch)..until it is proven that he has given US secrets away (so far it's just speculation by anyone who wants to call him a traitor) then I may change my mind. So far I don't think he's revealed anything to other countries they didn't already know. His Father, in an interview with Eric Bolling, originally said he wanted his son to come home..it sounds like he now realizes it was best he left. I, too, believe he'd be dead without any of us ever knowing anything about the NSA. (See Michael Hastings). Until proven otherwise I'm standing firm in my belief that what he did was an attempt to wake us up. Whether his attempts actually works when every Tom, Dick, and Harry in the media is calling him names and vilifying him and with so many believing whatever they're spoon fed, it remains to be seen.

that guy is now out and in hiding somewhere

Snowden took a major personal risk in letting us know what the NSA is doing. Staying in the country would have been suicide so I don't understand why so many are so quick to call him a coward. Also, if he risked so much just to alert us why on earth would he then give secrets to enemies. Wouldn't that have the opposite effect on his mission? I'm just not buying the traitor/treason spin.