You speak as though we are in a time of war. We are not.
Therefore Snowden is not a traitor.
And Snowden is exposing where the govt. has exceeded its constitutional authority which may be acceptable in wartime, it is unacceptable in peacetime.
We ARE in a war, several in fact, but the Obama regime acts as though we aren’t. Radical jihadist Islam is at war with us, all over the war, including inside the US.
So is communism, be it Putin’s crypto-Communist thugacracy or the ultra-extreme Communists of Peking and Pyongyang.
Don’t forget Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Bolivia, possibly Argentina (a Peronista state), elements in Brazil (the marxists run the country, remember?), and of course, Hugo’s Venezuela.
Al Qaeda, the Taliban, the Islamic Caliphate, the Moslem Brotherhood - they ain’t democracy-loving brothers, in case you haven’t noticed. Their ideological/religious philosophies call for our subjugation or destruction.
Where I come from that is called “WAR”.
Some people are just blind to reality, like Neville Chamberlain and the guys who screwed up the fleet at Pearl Harbor, and ignored local FBI agents’ warnings before 9/11.
I’m not blind and don’t intend to be.
We are AT WAR on many fronts, so get used to it, prepare for it, and go for victory.