Is he? Do you know that for a fact or are you assuming?
It would be no great secret that both the US and China monitor each other. And besides -- Snowden is a low-level intel grunt (who just happened to know enough about how the US Guv is using taxpayer money to sponsor and buying spying apparatus SOLELY TO MONITOR ITS OWN INNOCENT CITIZENS.) The evidence suggests conservatives have been THE target. Does that bother you at all?
I've always assumed our military technology and secrets have been for sale to the highest bidder ever since Bubba openly sold/exchanged them to the ChiComs for campaign contributions. Did you forget that?