[drypowder]

Article 3, section 3: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

Given the crimes and constant attacks committed against the Constitution by this government I'd say those in control of it are the ones committing treason. In my view Snoden is a true American Patriot for exposing them.

[Ohioan]

You will appreciate from your own post, that those in Washington calling Snowden a "Traitor" are simply ignorant of the Constitutional definition, and are just parroting others hurling the same silliness. Snowden was not adhering to the enemies of the American people, he was warning loyal, rooted Americans, that their rights to be secure in their persons & personal affairs are being violated. (Just what does anyone think the Founding Fathers had in mind in the Preamble to the Constitution, about securing the Blessings of Liberty to their posterity. It was not his sort of bull in a china-closet approach to law enforcement.)

It is too bad if some people find the limitations on Government, inconvenient. But that is what America is all about, 'being inconvenient for those who want excessive power over others.').

William Flax