he was a majorly depressed, bipolar douche with Gender Identity Issues who stole classified(by S.O.P., not for content) Government Reports of mostly no major consequences to get back at the big mean ol goberment who had DADT. reports that could have leaked strategic info like troop positions and numbers, killing his fellow soldiers but mostly didn't, luckily. by very definition of what he did, he was guilty of espionage(theft of classified documents, reveal of classified info) he wasn't some hero, he didn't really reveal anything major. he betrayed his fellow soldiers. because he was mentally unsound and threw a temper-tantrum. he should not be celebrated by a hero, that attitude that the OP gives off. and on the other traitor, snowden only revealed that they no longer needed permission to backdoor into websites and did it automatically, the programs were already public, but just mostly forgotten about by the MSM. he's the same.