FLASH: 54% OF AMERICANS CONSIDER ED SNOWDEN A WHISTLEBLOWER, 34% SAY TRAITOR. AND IN RELATED NEWS, 34% OF AMERICANS ARE SHOWN TO BE UNTHINKING BRAINWASHED STOOGES.

Snowden Seen as Whistle-Blower by Majority in New Poll

A majority of U.S. registered voters consider Edward Snowden a whistle-blower, not a traitor, and a plurality says government anti-terrorism efforts have gone too far in restricting civil liberties, a poll released today shows.

Fifty-five percent said Snowden was a whistle-blower in leaking details about top-secret U.S. programs that collect telephone and Internet data, in the survey from Hamden, Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University. Thirty-four percent said he’s a traitor.