> If you believe in the Rule of Law, then Snowden should be tried, and probably will be found guilty, for a fairly clear breach of the law.
This is circular reasoning. The government has made it (for all practical purposes) illegal for anyone to reveal its own lawbreaking. Obsessing over the lesser breach of the law committed by Snowden while ignoring the government's greater (in degree and in quantity) breach of the law is hypocrisy, and contrary to justice.
> The US President is bound by the constitution to use every means available to go after him.
No, the US President is an executive, not an automaton.
> national parliaments weren't doing their job...
Every check that was in place to prevent this situation has evidently failed. The best solutions (or even the good ones) may not lie within the established body of law.
This is circular reasoning. The government has made it (for all practical purposes) illegal for anyone to reveal its own lawbreaking. Obsessing over the lesser breach of the law committed by Snowden while ignoring the government's greater (in degree and in quantity) breach of the law is hypocrisy, and contrary to justice.
> The US President is bound by the constitution to use every means available to go after him.
No, the US President is an executive, not an automaton.
> national parliaments weren't doing their job...
Every check that was in place to prevent this situation has evidently failed. The best solutions (or even the good ones) may not lie within the established body of law.