Edward Snowden - traitor ?

[steeltoes]

Again, all citizens with moderate amount of knowledge know that phone companies hold this same information for months on end until termination.
The government is just viewing the same information telephony companies are looking at.
This is done with FBI searches which they ask for the set information on a certain person and this has been public.
There is actually no difference here. People just do not understand what information the government is viewing because they assume people are listening in on their conversations. It is impossible to store the data of 7 years of calls.

If what you say is true, no harm no foul, he has really done nothing that is worth all the trouble, yet you call him a traitor.

If he exposed what is considered normal procedure, then he really didn't expose anything, so what's the fuss all about? On the other hand the world knows how the U.S. treats its prisoners so it's no wonder that he fled the country.