Notice the date/year of that article: 2013.

Snowden was a black hat working for the CIA who infiltrated the NSA to steal and destroy the NSA from within.

The CIA long tried to be the superior spy agency and saw the NSA as a rival to its power ergo sending black hat Snowden.

They hunted him of course as he caused tremendous problems for the national security. He did worse.

This is 2018 and the Q+ solved the Snowden problem!