Wkileaks founder Julian Assange calls Edward Snowden a “hero” who has exposed “one of the most serious events of the decade – the creeping formulation of a mass surveillance state.”  http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jun/10/julian-assange-praises-edward-snowden  Assange called on supportive countries to “line up” and offer support to Snowden. “It will be really telling to see which countries really protect human rights, the privacy of the public, asylum rights, or which countries are scared of the United States or are in bed with this surveillance complex.” He described Manning and Snowden as “very serious, earnest young men who really believe in something, and have shown great courage, and there is no doubt actually that history will look on them extremely favourably and perhaps, in a few years, will liberate them from their predicament.”