There is this obscure document known as the us constitution that defines treason as

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

He is definitely not waging war on the US and is not adhering to any enemy, nor giving them aid and comfort.

Or he is aiding enemy so secret that the government even cannot tell you who it is.

Also:

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.

"Aid" as in intelligence. Any piece of it you give to them can be considered treason. To make public is to yield to the enemy...

No it's not. Laws function by intention, too. He didn't make it public to aid the "enemy" (who is the enemy anyway? the world?). He did it to protect America. I think he also swore an oath to protect America against enemies both domestic and abroad. And he also swore to defend the Constitution - not the president.

When the enemy is 'terrorism', anything you make public is giving information to the enemy.

That is why the expression is so important and why Obama (and Bush in his time) keeps saying that the US is 'at war'. Because that allows them to subvert the law.

Honestly: I am not defending the Administration, on the contrary. I am just explaining why they are going to try to persecute him for treason if (when) they find him.

Tell which enemy was aided. And also tell where this entity have been defined as an enemy?

(See above, cannot edit). All hinges around the 'war on terror'.

I am not defending the Administration (I may have made myself unclear), I am explaining why they are going for him """"lawfully"""" in their words.

Nor is snowden going to be tried for treason.

Or, you know, if one had been linking to videos and/or downloading files by altering numbers in a URL.

You're right that treason has been committed: the United States has become it's own enemy.

>"When treason is committed? Yes."

There are a surprising number of people with this mentality. They'll be the reason the status quo is maintained.

I think leaking some of this stuff is one of the most patriotic things you can do, given the subject matter and the government overreach it was meant to expose.

In fact, I wish this happened more often. The population as a whole shows a lot of apathy until something like this happens to stir the coals. Unfortunately, it's going to take a lot more than just this to bring about major change.

Stalin's Gulag was full of "traitors".

You can regard the publishing of the Pentagon Papers as treason as well. Maybe this is why Nixon was so furious about it.

And apparently in Edward Snowden's as well as that.