Many people defended his action as ethical, arguing that he
acted from the sense of public good
Many argued that he was legally culpable
Many others stated that even if he was legally culpable, he was
not ethically culpable as their law itself was unjust and
unconstitutional
snowden is a valued whistle blower
he doesn't appeared to have sougt money for his disclosure
He appears to have thought more about what he was taking than
where he was taking it
He made breath taking disclosures eg:secret orders under which
NASA was seizing phones and text records of every citizens in US,
surveillance of world leaders
He succeeded in forcing multiple task force investigations and
series of changes
Snowden is a traitor
He broke government rules
Embarrassed powerful leaders
Broke law in removing and disclosing classified
information.