I'm sorry, but this was clearly not the way to handle the problem. Snowden, from what I have read, did not try to address the issues from within the framework before going to the media. An example of this, and it being unsuccessful, would be William Binney, Thomas Drake, and J. Kirk Wiebe who tried to address some of these issues "in house" before going public. You talk to your superiors, continue up the chain, talk to congressional commities, etc. What you do not do is leak information during a time of war (we're still in the Afghanistan war, I'm not talking about the more philisophical "War on Terror").
Had he followed protocol to try to address the issues, I could applaud him. Instead, with how he has leaked information during a time of war after taking oaths, he needs to be returned and tried for treason. This man is not a hero. This man is someone who has made choices that will directly lead to American deaths because he did not take the time to fix the problems the right way.
