Intel heads have tagged NSA data leaker Edward Snowden as a traitor. They want him to undergo trial and be jailed for treason charges. However, the world doesn't see him that way. In fact, some see him as a hero and is a deserving nominee for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Norwegian parliamentarians Snorre Valen and Baard Vegar Solhjell nominated the former NSA contract computer specialist as among the possible winners of one of the five Nobel Prizes for 2014.

"The public debate and changes in policy that have followed in the wake of Snowden's whistleblowing have contributed to a more stable and peaceful world order," said the two Nobel committee members who represent the Socialist Left Party their country through a nomination letter that first reached Bloolmber.

"The US is one of the world's most democratic and free societies," Valen explained in an email Wednesday.

"I feel confident that a peace prize to Snowden will not affect US-Norwegian relations. I have more trust in Barack Obama's democratic thinking than that of China's."

Nobel Prize doesn't reveal the nominees for each year since the 1960s. However, those who take part in nomination can opt to announce their own bets. The winner is honored on December 10 of each year in Oslo.

This is not the first time that Valen nominated someone who protests against powerful governments. In 2011, he nominated Wikileaks, an anti-government secrecy group that previously released secret US government documents founded by Australian publisher Julian Assange. Wikileaks is the same company that assists Snowden in gathering data to expose the US government's spying programs on the public.

In the United States, the 30 year old former NSA contractor is treated as the public enemy no. 1. Government officials said that his acts have caused profound damage to the country's security.

"What Snowden has stolen and exposed has gone way, way beyond his professed concerns with so-called domestic surveillance programs," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said at the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in the public hearing. "As a result, we've lost critical foreign intelligence collection sources, including some shared with us by valued partners."