Many, many more people view him as a traitor for exposing legal foreign intelligence programs. He obviously did it for what he thought were valid reasons, but that does make it right.
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1. Exposed the tools and techniques of domestic surveillance. 2. Exposed the tools and techniques of foreign surveillance.
The idea of not prosecuting Snowden seems to focus on the commendable exposure of the full extent of the domestic program.
I just don't see how one can ignore his exposure of the perfectly legal foreign intelligence gathering.