- the NSA and/or other three letter agencies are/were out of control
- Snowden did enormous damage to US and allies with his indiscriminate distribution of classified information
https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/snowden-is-a-traitor-and...
Sure, in the same way that the police do to organised white-collar criminals when they arrest them and put them in prison.
Just take a look at the list of revelations
https://www.lawfareblog.com/snowden-revelations
Most of the revelations are not at all about domestic spying and instead revealed details about doing what the NSA is chartered to do: international spying.
You can consider it immoral that the NSA monitored the communications of Angela Merkel or the italian ministry of defense, but that isn't whistle-blowing. It's the reason that the NSA exists.
It is definitely whisteblowing to reveal that a country has been secretely wiretapping the communications of its (supposed) allies – one can blow the whistle on things which are "legal" especially when their legality has been surreptitiously pushed through the back door.
I almost went full Godwin point on this.
That would be something like "telling the police about your abusive husband hurts your family". Yes, it did hurt intelligence agencies and their beneficiaries. That is not the same as "the US". The victims of the indiscriminate surveillance were largely American and are much more plentiful than the perpetrators.
I think it's telling that multiple administrations have failed to come forward and promise him a fair trial, let alone any sort of deal, commutation, or pardon.
"Fred Fleitz served in 2018 as a Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump and Chief of Staff to National Security Adviser John Bolton."
That surely seems like a very objective person.