Why I don’t think Snowden is a traitor.
There were 2 provisions of the law:
1) You CAN intercept overseas terrorists AND even their conversations in the US.
2) You cannot intercept US traffic. It is expressly labeld as forbidden, illegal.
Snowden revealed that #2 was taking place. That makes him a whistleblower and not a traitor.
To date he has not given any info regarding #1, that I know of.
On the other hand, Obama revealed a few weeks back that we intercepted overseas conversations between the head of Al Qaeda and the head of Yemen’s Al Qaeda branch, and he gave the content of the interception.
I think Snowden is playing a very nasty game.
This guy abandoned his family and made a beeline to communist China.