No. I call him a traitor for the following reasons:
Not because of the information he leaked, but the manner in which he leaked it. A true whistleblower would have first pursued legal avenues for reining in the NSA, such as seeking out sympathetic members of Congress. We elect people to serve in Congress specifically for the purpose of representing their interests on important matters of state.
A true patriotic whistleblower believes in his or her cause enough to be willing to accept the punishment their disclosures bring. If they truly believe in the righteousness of their cause, they’ll be confident enough that the American people will ultimately come to appreciate their actions and they’ll be pardoned. Snowden’s flight to Hong Kong and then Moscow showed he wasn’t willing to suffer the consequences for his actions, calling into question how much he believed in his cause.
While fleeing abroad certainly made Snowden a coward, it didn’t necessarily preclude him from being a whistleblower. The information he disclosed wasn’t necessarily any less important to restoring Americans’ liberty because of his personal shortcomings.
It has long since become apparent, however, that Snowden should be viewed as a traitor because of the careless ways in which he collected and leaked information. Had Snowden been a whistleblower interested in protecting the American constitution, he would have carefully collected information documenting NSA overreach in spying on Americans. Only that would have been given to the journalists and newspapers Snowden contacted.
Instead, he collected an apparently unknowable amount of information (unknowable to both him and the NSA) and dumped it on the doorsteps of largely foreign newspapers. As he no doubt fully understood, most of these documents contained information pertaining to how the NSA collected intelligence on legitimate foreign targets, not Americans whatsoever.
If you don't understand all this makes him a traitor, then I have to question just how loyal you are to the United States of America.
Let me respond in reverse order to your post. I'll respond to the last part now, and the rest later.
Let me make one thing clear, I have NO loyalty for the Marxist States of America.
I have NO loyalty for ANY country that orders its men to stay lying in bed silenty while little Afghani boys scream as they are being sodomized in the ally bunkers next door.
I have NO loyalty for ANY country that burns DROVES of men, women, and children (INFANTS!) to death on its own soil.
I have NO loyalty for ANY country that flies two drones into buildings (to enter a region and eliminate documents of stolen money in the Pentagon) and then mourns those who have died like they aren't even guilty.
The United States of America died around 1960. It was a great country, with great ideals, moral people, and a thirst for justice. The baby boomer generation is just now starting to realize what every younger generation has known since the early 90s, that we don't live in the United States of America anymore. We live in a highly sophisticated dictatorship that sports a historical flag bearing stars and stripes. That's why I feel nothing when I see people burning the U.S. flag or stomping on it. It's like stomping on a Mayan vase. Or throwing an Ancient Egyption tablet on the ground, shattering it. It means nothing anymore. It represents nothing.
It's silly to see "biker patriots" protesting this and that. Driving here and there. It's silly to see the Bill O'Reilly/Ann Coulter cult talking about how much change this country needs, how we need to get back to the "old ways", how our constitution is so great....when it hasn't been followed consistently for 15 years...and nobody is doing anything about these things other than voicing their opinions on the internet.
So no. I'm not a silly "patriot" that walks around with an "American" flag on my shirt, carries an AR15 around in public like it's going to matter when the gov finally makes it's move for a gun grab, and thinks we are in the Middle East for just reasons. My loyalty is to the great people that occupy this piece of land. I'd die for them, easily. Not some group of men tell me they now control it and call it a "country" after genociding the great people who were already here.