I’ll take my downvotes. No, I don’t think he is.

I think if he were, he’d have

• limited his disclosure to the programs he had an actual issue with
• at least attempted the normal whistleblower procedure through OGC
• gathered his data by social engineering staff in specific projects and not anyone he could in his office

Personally, my profile of Snowden is someone who has a large ego and lashed out because he was a small fish in a large NSA pond. The “whistleblower” story was generated by propagandists to encourage copycats by digging through the massive disclosures and finding one or two uncomfortable things to latch on to. Snowden played along because he had to; he was now at the mercy of U.S. adversaries to give him safe harbor.