" .. Principle IV of what came to be known as the Nuremberg Code states: “The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him .. "

 
Under those circumstances Edward Snowden is just following what the USA set up as a moral - and legal (!) - fence by the end of WWII - but it seems that today no official of this country does (or doesn't want to) remember what was held to be true in the Nuremberg war crime trials.

Lying Bigots, all of them.
Including our government whistling the same tune ....