What if back in 2013 Snowden saw where the NSA was back dooring in the information of Bitcoin and Liberty Reserve under the overseas surveillance authority known as Executive Order 12333 that gives them and US law enforcement wide latitude to use intelligence when investigating US citizens overseas. (Using this under the cover of going after terrorist,crime,narcotics...follow-the-money) We were doing this and charging US citizens without telling them how they got the information. While doing this they came across information on many of our top people and possibly even all the way up to Zero.
This article is making me think outside the box.