Edward Snowden is back in the news.

Snowden, who worked for a contractor the National Security Agency, left the US in 2013 and released up to 10,000 NSA documents to journalists which detailed the agency’s surveillance operations and techniques.

Now he has written his memoir, and the US Justice Department is suing to prevent his publisher from giving him any of the profits.

Six years after his headline disclosures, is Snowden a hero challenging the surveillance state or — in his long-term stay in Moscow — an asset for Russia who should be in a US prison?

I discussed the issues with Voice of Islam on Tuesday. Listen from 57:26:

In the years after 9-11, the Bush Administration stepped up not only its operations aboard, including the efforts for regime regime, but also operations at home. Quite often they, at the very least, skirting the law if not breaking it — for example, allowing US intelligence agencies to carry out surveillance on Americans.

Edward Snowden lifted the lid on that: does that make him a traitor or a hero?