I think its comical to watch the engineered character assassination attempts come out in the media now against Snowden. Senators, pundits etc are all calling Snowden a traitor in a plain attempt to divert attention away from his disclosure. Denial is often the preface to justification. For the citizens of our country there is no justification, no national security assertion, that should dissuade us from the premise that our current government, in listening to every phone call and reading every transmission on the internet, is violating the fundamental Constitutional rights of American citizens.