system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: what happens if the U.S. government captures Edward Snowden?

I know there are a billion posts about this guy every day on reddit, but I want to know


1) why the government wants him so badly, even to the point of making themselves look bad. 

2) what they'd do to him. 


3) what the repercussions would be (in your opinion).
gpt
1)  Because he gave highly classified information to a journalist, violating his secrecy oath.

2)  He will probably end up living in ADX Florence for most of (if not all of) the rest of his life.

3)  None.  The programs he revealed aren't new, aren't about to end because of his revelations, and he will probably be largely forgotten in a couple of years. We have all seen variants of this story play itself out many times over the decades.