Nothing like a traitor trying to get the press on his side.
Some consider him a whistleblower not a traitor. We would not have known about any of this until he exposed the program.
Here is what Obama says about Snowden.
"I called for a thorough review of our surveillance operations before Mr. Snowden made these leaks," Obama said. "My preference, and I think the American people's preference, would have been for a lawful, orderly examination of these laws; a thoughtful fact-based debate that would then lead us to a better place."
Sounds to me now that the government's hand was caught in the cookie jar, time to label, the person who exposed them as a traitor. I dated a chick who used to pull that shit all the time. She did something fucked up and somehow found a way to turn it around on me.