Unless he was a Russian or Chinese asset all along.
snowden was a Chinese asset - he fled to China where he was debriefed after tuning over all NSA’s collection Means and Methods which resulted in the murders of all Chinese US assets in China - this will come out or should come out with the information Chinese spy Dong gave the DIA.
At that point the Chinese had no use for him and were about to deport him, when the Russians stepped in and Eddy fled to Russia giving them all the same data form NSA. The Data was then disseminated to AQ, NK, and Iran.
How many US assets were murdered is unknown, but in China alone the number is in the hundreds.
The Methods and Means of collection cost billions to develop and now thanks to Eddie’s courageous actions have cost billions more to recreate where that was even possible.
A very patriotic fellow, a national hero. So say many people because he exposed NSA’s data collection of US phones - not knowing that this bit of information has been public information since the 1970s available in pubic libraries. For exposing what is already know via the Media who knowingly suppressed the very real damage done while boosting already public information as something new and shocking, Eddie Snowjob was elevated to near sainthood in some circles.
A very patriotic fellow, a national hero. It just depends which country one lives in ...