Did edward snowden break the law

Locate an article that discusses the actions and prosecution of Edward Snowden. In your initial post, provide a link to the article and answer the following questions:

What source of law controls Snowden’s prosecution? Explain your answer.
Can Snowden be charged and arrested by a state law-enforcement officer? Can he be prosecuted in a state court? Why or why not?
Do Snowden’s actions violate substantive and/or moral laws? Explain your answer.
What goals/purposes of the criminal justice system justify criminal action against Snowden?
Why?
Review the posts of your fellow learners and respond to at least two. What factors do you think may influence these different assessments of the Snowden case? In your response posts, you must do one or more of the following:

Ask an analytical question.
Offer a suggestion.
Elaborate on a particular point.
Provide an alternative opinion supported with research.
Be sure to support your initial post and follow-up posts with scholarly examples from the module readings and additional literature where appropriate. You must cite all references according to APA style.

Peer post one

Hello All,

I found two different articles that helped me understand who Edward Snowden is (had no idea who he was) and more about what he did and the what type of charges are being pressed against him.

One of the articles is a Biography about him and the other is called The Resilient Foundation of Democracy: The Legal Deconstruction of the Washington Posts's Condemnation of Edward Snowden.

Snowden worked for the NSA. While working for them he stole many documents from the government. He ran to Hong Kong where he then exposed these documents to the world. In doing so he breached his contract as a U.S. government official. He is now faced with charges that are under the Espionage Act. However, since he is currently residing in Russia the American government can not do anything unless he comes to the U.S. or the Russian government agrees to turn him over to the U.S.