The justice system has existed from before Napoleon and it still seems it’s the fourth wheel of the shopping cart. Its role is to fix things in society by sanctioning malevolent people a posteriori, to prevent them from acting further and discourage candidates to malevolence, and determine where is the line in cases where there is no winner. So when is the last time our justice system fixed anything in our society, and why have we stopped innovating in terms of democratic advances?
It seems clear that the release of the material was endorsed by Russia, whether they knew about it or not. Trump is not demanding his return. And Russia is not going to send him back because it would show a bad example for anybody else contemplating "doing a Snowden".
He exposed criminal actions that the U.S. was doing. He did so by using a source that had fully legal means of obtaining that evidence.
>The rules in the US are already very liberal here.
Why is Snowden in Russia then? Why is it that those people who are actually experienced with the US government, choose other countries rather than the protection of whistle-blower laws? Perhaps it's because the people who run our country don't actually abide by any laws and are instead just criminals?