Edward Snowden is a TRAITOR, What about the NYT ?

The New York Times: The US paper of record writes the following in its editorial on Edward Snowden,"... deserves better than a life of permanent exile, fear and flight. He may have committed a crime to do so, but he has done his country a great service. It is time for the United States to offer Mr. Snowden a plea bargain or some form of clemency that would allow him to return home,.. ".

Lets Get Real: 

How out of touch is the extreme liberal NYT, lets recall this is the same paper that covered for Stalin during the Cold War*, the paper has lost it moral soul, it no longer cares about the security of the United States, it peddles left wing spin as reporting, that virus seems to have travelled to its foreign policy writing as well, the US voter if they take the NYT should consider changing paper, if the NYT had ruled the US through the 80s the Warsaw Pact would still be around, Eastern Europe would still be under Soviet control and the USSR would still be living threat to Western democracy.    If the Republicans retake the White House in 2016 it should allow the DoJ to look at the NYT, to see if it has broken any laws, the release of highly secret documents found itself on the front page of the NYT, this was a blow to US national security.    The NYT must have wept that Reagan was right about the USSR, while the liberal elite had their heads up their own egos.   Thus hubris before the fall, all things end, will the NYT just become a forgotten paper from the early years of the 21 Century. 

*In reference to the Cold War, this blog takes the start of the Cold War from 1917, when the Communists took over, to its end in the mid 1980s under Reagan and Gorbachev.   The exception was a brief and for mutual reasons the alliance between the US, UK and USSR during World War Two, the alliance folded after the end of WW2 in 1945.