CHICAGO, May 30 (UPI) -- Edward Snowden's revealing of documents about U.S. surveillance programs was a public service but he must still face punishment, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday.
"We can certainly argue about the way in which Snowden did what he did, but I think that he actually performed a public service by raising the debate that we engaged in and by the changes that we made...Now I would say that doing what he did, and the way he did it, was inappropriate and illegal. I think he harmed American interests," Holder, who served as attorney general from 2009 to 2015, said.