Time To Exonerate Edward Snowden?

Here's the editorial from the New York Times in which they made their weak case for granting clemency to Edward Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor who stole a trove of highly classified documents after he became disillusioned with the agency’s voraciousness. 
Read it and comment!
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/opinion/edward-snowden-whistle-blower.html?src=recg