Whatever they do to him, he will never regret disclosing the illegal surveillance of millions of private communications by the US National Security Agency, says Edward Snowden.
     I watched Laura Poitras's film, citizenfour, which shows Snowden producing the secret files in the neutral safety of Hong Kong.  It was an extraordinary experience.   Snowden ("I'm known as Ed) emerges as a likeable, modest, highly intelligent young man whom you would have no trouble in trusting with any of your secrets.   But the NSA did trust him, mistakenly.
      Snowden says the NSA programme is unconstitutional and illegal.    He says when he saw two congressmen lying under oath about it to Congress, he came to breaking point and decided to act.
 in its extensive sur his job working for the corporation Booz Allen Hamilton after being trained  by the NSA was tp look for ways that could be used to break into the internet and phone traffic globally.
     Now President Obama is saying he should come back to the States, where he was born in North Caroline, to face espionage charges.   In detail, these are theft of government property, unauthorised communication of national defence information and wilful communication of classified intelligence.