okay the Dog-Pile is on.
It's just me so please feel free to attack.
Look, yer on the wrong side of an issue here. If Snowden wanted to be a whistle blower fine, but when he ran to Russia with American secrets, he became a traitor. Who do you think was paying him in Russia all these years, how did he live? Political asylum is one thing, but they are paying him a salary and have for a long time. Perhaps some of the laws about surveilling American citizens are wrong and need changing, there are many republican traitors like the 10 senators who spent July 4th last year in Russia sucking Putin's ass. How about US politicians can be surveilled much easier than the average citizen? They hold top secret information too, just like government employees. The idea of privacy is a recent thing, 100 years ago your neighbors knew everything about you and 100 years before that they knew even more because people had large families with lots of relatives.
Snowden made his bed, and he has to lay in it, he crossed a line and sold out his country to a hostile foreign power run by a despot who could nuke you at any moment and has recently threatened to on several occasions. You have seen their ugly face in Ukraine and Uncle Sam isn't fucking around with them or with traitors, including Trump. His day is coming, as soon as his usefulness to the democrats during the election is over, he will die in a cage and be removed in a bag.