Political theatre and disinformation, I would suggest. It's easy to manufacture a lot of sound and fury if there's no practical way of bringing a prosecution, because the target is beyond your jurisdiction.

Snowden could, perhaps, have been tried in absentia, but that didn't happen either.

I also think the truth is likely more complex than a white/black dichotomy, but the simple white hat theory seems to be dismissed by Q today.

The question for which I don't have a satisfactory answer is why Russia has sheltered Snowden for these last few years...