The "simplicity" of the matter has already been distilled for your edification:
1) The government has NO authority to trash the 4th Amendment.
2) "Treason" is being committed by those who routinely violate their oath...TO the US Constitution.
3) Snowden exposed unconstitutional surveillance and illegal police state, activities that could well be considered treason against We The People, and treachery against We The People without justification -- ALL of which are committed and executed without the authority and consent OF We The People.
To whom do YOU swear alliance and loyalty? To Men OR the US Constitution?
And neither you nor Snowden have made a coherent argument that it has.
2) "Treason" is being committed by those who routinely violate their oath...TO the US Constitution.
So we return to the arguments of "two wrongs make a right" and "but Mom, he's doing it too so you have to let me." Pretty weak stuff.
So he says. Why it's unconstitutional is something that has yet to be explained.
Fact: Snowden is a traitor because he has openly supplied foreign powers with US military secrets that he stole.