I Am Going to Say Something Controversial

Snowden didn't just expose illegal activity - he also released details on hundreds of undercover operatives to Wikileaks, which after token redaction (that didn't really protect the agents), the narcissist in charge of the site leaked it to everyone. It put hundreds of people's lives in danger - people who were risking everything to serve something bigger than themselves. God only knows how many of them are dead now because of Snowden. I despise the illegal surveillance that Snowden shined a light on, and I think that in some areas our own government are some of the worst kinds of criminals. But the good he did, and the evil that our government sometimes does, doesn't negate the families who are never going to see their husbands/wives/fathers/mothers again because Snowden and Julian Assange were too fanatical to care about their lives.