>Maybe Snowden's flipped?
Snowden is in a tight spot. He's moved into China away from CIA plants observing him in Russia (it's harder to get Chinese glow clowns). Snowden is going to use signals intelligence to broadcast the required video Spartans in Darkness remember?, as part payment to a homebound ticket using a shortwave radio encrypted stream.
This is to occur soon prior to verification at the weekend. Secure comms needed to be re-established today (for the listening channels picking up from Snowden ) after they were compromised.
that's my autistic guess on it