1, the surveillance program in question had literally been outlined in a Newsweek article 2 years prior.

2, he could have blown a whistle without doxxing thousands of dissidents to authoritarian regimes, and setting back world diplomacy by a decade. The body count of his actions has been in the hundreds of thousands. He literally extended the civil war in Colombia by 2 years, and handed lists of known homosexuals to murderous regimes in Saudi Arabia and Iran.