If Snowden isn't a traitor, then he's a complete idiot.

Since I spent 20 years in the Air Force, and I worked at several Top Secret projects, I have been asked my thoughts on Edward Snowden. Now, I have been hesitant to give my opinion, mostly because I don't think I've known enough to state an opinion. But, after reading more, I've decided that if he is either a complete idiot, or he is a traitor, and traitor is much more likely. Why?

Well, to start with, he'd been in the job just 3 months. How many jobs have you had where within 90 days you can say that you knew everything about it and there was a huge problem with it? I'm guessing either none, or very few. In 20 years, I was at 11 bases and had 14 jobs. And I never had a test of how I was doing my job until I was there for 90 days. In my 20 years, I also made 9 suggestions to my superiors to make the job better. Average time to get an answer: 30 days. And 7 took 2 weeks or less. So did he go through the chain of command? I completely doubt it. And what is one of the first things that everyone is told on their first day of orientation? Go through your boss if you have any problems and go up the chain if you don't like the answer. So, he disregards all this, and some want to call him a hero? I don't understand that at all. So that's the first thing.

The second thing is, to be real truthful, if you wanted the American people to know something, would you then leave the country? No! You'd tell the country, and stay to show that you believe in what you're saying, and that you believe in Americans. Would you flee the country and go to China? Of course not!

But, why is it possible that he's really an idiot? Well, he said that he was either going to China or Iceland, where he didn't think he'd be sent back to America. Iceland? NATO's Iceland? Now, I spent 2 years in Iceland, and if I was his age, I'd love to go there. I've seen the women. But you'd have to be a complete idiot to think you could go there and not be sent back if America asked for you to be sent back.

Edward Snowden has just a GED and, I guess, because he's good with computer code, he gets a job with a government contractor. 90 days later, he tells the world how the country monitors foreign and domestic lines.  If he isn't a complete idiot, and that may be true, he must be a traitor. He can't be a hero. Heroes don't run away.