Let’s get one thing straight.  Edward Snowden is not a patriot.  He’s not even a whistle blower.  He’s a traitor.  Pure and simple.  His motives, while they are possibly obscure,  are certainly not altruistic.  He stole secrets and purposely gave them (or sold them) to our enemies.  Make no mistake China and Russia are not our friends.

Of course there are many questions.  How does a 29-year-old high school drop out have access to top secret materials?  How does he even have a job at a defense contractor?  Could it be that there are so many people employed in spying on Americans that they had to take what they could get at the bottom of the barrel?

The response from Obama and his administration would be laughable if it weren’t so sad.  How can they act like such bullies with the American people and yet be such cowards when dealing with foreign governments?  Putin is a second-rate ruler in a second-rate country.  Yet he seems to have Obama’s number in a stare down.  Obama wants to give up everything including our nukes and it’s still not enough for Vladimir.  China just flat-out owns us thanks to all our borrowing.

Yes, in the tradition of Bradley Manning, Benedict Arnold, and Julius and Ethyl Rosenberg,  Snowden fits right in.  Whatever we think about this administration, let there be no mistake.  Snowden is a traitor.

Denny Andrews, Bellevue