I can tell you this much: anyone caught with classified documents (paper or digital form, such as CD or thumb drive) in his/her home has broken the law–even if the documents have been shown to no one and the person has no association whatsoever with any of “America’s enemies.” There is a strict protocol dictating how to get such documents from a locked safe, use them for a time, and then return them to a safe. Any deviation from these procedures (such as taking them home without special permission to do so) is a crime.

Why would you think anyone here is implying that “if a thing is not charged, it therefore does not exist?”

Because you were talking about Snowden committing treason, and the subject matter of this post is what offenses Snowden was charged with, I was merely pointing out he hasn’t been charged with treason, or even espionage as most people understand it, although the charges come under the Espionage Act. Nor was the charge that he criminally or non-criminally harmed the US, for that matter.

On the scale of criminally or non-criminally harming the United States of America:

Snowden is a 2. maybe a 1. Maybe a negative 10 in that he really helped the country.

Obama is an 11.

The charge against Snowden is not treason.

Snowden is a two. Maybe a one.

Obama is an 11.