The government broke the law on a massive scale.
The traitors are those who authorized and operated the criminal spying network aimed at victimizing every single American citizen, and many other innocent victims outside the US too.
Exposing the criminal elements which have infiltrated our government structures is no crime.
Rhetoric to"criminalize" the whistle-blowers are merely weak attempts to swerve the attention away from the real guilty parties that engaged in this secret war being waged against the American people by its own government personnel.
These government "officials" who have proven that they flagrantly disregard the
Constitution and the rights of the people, have shown that they consider themselves above the law and outside the law, and that they believe their corruption is to be protected by further abuses of their power.
They have broken the contract with the people, lost all credibility, and the only way to restoration is to abolish the secret systems and networks that they have constructed against the American people, and bring a clear demonstration of transparency back to government. The "national security blanket" is being used to protect criminals and their actions from being seen by the people.
I would support fully open and televised criminal trials-by-jury for all the government officials involved, from the top right down to the bottom, with full public disclosure of every single thing they did. And treason charges would certainly be appropriate, not for "aiding" the enemy, but for "being" the enemy. As the oath describes: protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC.
It does NOT read: protect the corrupt cabal members from being found out and prosecuted for their crimes against the Constitution and humanity.
They all took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, not to trample it into the dirt, along with oppressing all the American people too.