Well that is just a dumb line of logic. You said that what the NSA was doing 'seems' like a governmental overstep? No, it was big time illegal and unconstitutional and he fled because our government has a history of disappearing people like Snowden. Or if they cannot disappear them, do everything they can to ruin you financially and socially.

You are not obligated to defend the very illegal things that people in our government do, like spy on everyone illegally. Wouldn't you agree that it is silly to think the government would have done anything less than destroy Snowden?