&gt; How did he betray his nation exactly?<p>He revealed information about supposed national-security intelligence-collection measures.<p>&gt; From where I&#x27;m sitting, it looks like he did everyone except the government a huge fucking favour.<p>He certainly did the Chinese and Russian governments a huge favour.<p>&gt; Your government is not your nation, and your government are the ones betraying you.<p>Hardly.  Nothing he has alleged is illegal; nothing he has alleged is unconstitutional; everything he has alleged was appropriately targeted.<p>I&#x27;ll grant him this much: he doesn&#x27;t think he&#x27;s evil; he thinks he&#x27;s doing good.  But what he&#x27;s actually done is cause exceptionally grave damage to the government <i>and people</i> of the United States of America (and, insofar as the United States act as guarantors of the Pax Americana, he&#x27;s endangered the rest of the world as well).