He's a traitor who is now doing puff pieces for Vladimir Putin because the Chinese were too disgusted to take him. He released information about legal surveillance operations which were creepy but hardly surprising. He did this primarily to make himself a celebrity -- there's no reason he ever needed to "out" himself as the leaker -- and immediately ran to our worst enemies to buy favors with other secrets that he stole. A "whistleblower" doesn't grab a hard disk full of every file he can steal, then indiscriminately release some of them every time his name falls below the fold on the news blogs. And his latest shenanigans (shameless Putin propaganda on the Russian language program, fake concern about human rights for English language consumption) should destroy any myths that he actually cares about government surveillance.