He worked for the CIA. The white hats were using the NSA to spy on the deep state and us illegally to see what the hell was going on and who was trying to trade military/other secrets to China. Snowden was sent in by the CIA as a "contractor" to become a fake whistleblower for the deep state because they had inside information that the white hats where collecting data, voice/texts/etc on them.
He worked for the CIA. The white hats were using the NSA to spy on the deep state and us illegally to see what the hell was going on and who was trying to trade military/other secrets to China. Snowden was sent in by the CIA as a "contractor" to become a fake whistleblower for the deep state because they had inside information that the white hats where collecting data, voice/texts/etc on them.