How about "going after" (bringing to justice), instead of Snowden, those responsible for putting in place this vast, Orwellian system of spying on tens of millions of Americans?

And I thought only countries like China, Iran, Cuba, and North Korea used mass surveillance to spy on their own citizens.

If it is being used for purposes of national security, we at least need to be informed by our government that it is being done.   Instead, the federal government/Obama Administration is caught "red-handed" and then makes a big stink about the person who informed the public only because the government would not be honest, cop to what it has been doing.

It's like a man who continues to deny reports of infidelity to his wife until someone furnishes irrefutable proof.  And then the man blames the latter.

What the husband--and the Obama Administration, by the same token, do not like is being caught in a lie, i.e., deceiving the party to whom he/it swore to be faithful.

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More to the point, why is all the attention being focused on the alleged crimes of Edward Snowden, one individual caught in an act of civil disobedience instead of bringing to justice those responsible for putting in place this vast, Orwellian system of spying on tens of millions of Americans?

The real crime for which Mr. Snowden is being pursued is to have exposed the enormity of the deception and lies of the U.S. government, which of course is of great embarrassment to the Obama Administration.

And so he is being branded summarily as a "traitor."

He is being punished for telling the truth.  The charges are just a smokescreen.

In America, the worst accusation one can level against another person is that either s/he is a racist...or a traitor.

A single man can make a difference if he speaks his conscience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-cohen/snowden-media-coverage_b_3503971.html