[gordner]

What Snowden did, right or wrong, is show the world that the terrorist are winning. America is no longer the bastion of personal freedoms it was, the populace is more and more willing to give up their freedoms because their government tells them they have to in order to stay safe.
Every time we change the way we live our lives to "protect" ourselves, they win. Your government spying on you in the manner that was revealed is a huge loss of freedom for the American people, and a massive win for the terrorists. Even more revealing as to how much things have changed since 9/11 is the lack of reaction by the American populace to the unlawful actions of their government.