"But He Swore an Oath! He Broke the Law!"

Here's a good article about the difference between Snowden breaking the law and those Senators on the Intelligence Committee who didn't: When it’s wrong to keep your word .

It's not long.  Have a read.  And may I add (or perhaps simply state differently):

1) Keeping an oath is not an honorable thing when your oath is to keep quiet about immoral and illegal activity.

2) Intelligence Committee Senators should not be praised for keeping their oath of secrecy, but instead should be tried for aiding and abetting crimes.

3) Those Senators did not keep their oath of secrecy because of some noble idea of the rule of law. They did it because they didn't want to lose their jobs.  The same reason the other people at the NSA working with Ed Snowden who knew what was being done didn't say anything.

..but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:   From a Nation interview November 2014...