Snowden was sort of a whistleblower but a planned whistle blower. Thats how they do things, create covers for the covers. Whislteblow on themselves to realease what they want the public to believe. Controls the knowledge by purposely planting disinfo. Granted it wasnt really disinfo, just obsolete info. Emails and phone calls arent shit when they can read your thoughts with hidden tech.
Also, it was a plan of the cia to embaress the nsa and have it shredded. No compitetion with the clowns.