Ron Paul: Snowden’s ‘great service’

President Barack Obama should send Edward Snowden a thank you letter for bringing transparency to the administration, former Rep. Ron Paul says.

Finally were getting the president to fulfill his promise about transparency so thats pretty exciting to me, he told CNNs Piers Morgan on Monday night.

Paul said Snowden has done a great service for telling the truth about the government surveillance program.

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When you have a dictatorship or an authoritarian government, truth becomes treasonous and this is what they do if you are a whistle blower or youre trying to tell the American people our country is destroying our rule of law or destroying our constitution, they turn it on and they say oh, youre committing treason, Paul said.

For somebody to tell the American people the truth is a heroic effort.

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Snowden reportedly donated a total of $500 to Pauls 2012 presidential campaign.

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Ron Paul: Snowden's 'great service'