Thank you, Edward Snowden

Last week Congress passed a bipartisan bill limiting the N.S.A. with 387 votes in the House and 67 votes in the Senate.  Perhaps for the first time ever Congress voted to limit the powers of the N.S.A. to spy on American citizens.  Earlier a federal court declared much of the N.S.A. snooping and mass collection of phone records unconstitutional.  

In 2001 only one Senator, Russ Feingold, voted against the “Patriot Act.”  Last week 67 Senators voted to limit the act.  

It is time for the President to invite Edward Snowden to come home.  We would not have known what the N.S.A. was doing if he had not gone to the press.  He was correct in his actions.  We need to stop treating him like a criminal and start treating him like the patriot he has been.