Edward Snowden: Traitor or Patriot?

What Edward Snowden did was highly controversial but justifiable in my opinion.  What the government was doing was shady and a lot of Americans were left in the dark.  The way Snowden went about revealing the secret was not okay, he leaked the information to other countries, however, I think his intentions were good.  Edward Snowden felt that America deserved to know that their data was being monitored without their knowledge or consent.  He took major risks in revealing the information and it forced President Obama to come out and come clean about the whole thing, something he and Bush should've done long before.  Snowden did betray the government and the CIA but he was being loyal to his fellow Americans and letting them know important information regarding their phone calls.  Edward Snowden is not a traitor and released the information for the good of the American People.