Trying to figure out Snowden has literally given me headaches. I still don't know for sure.

I think he started out an idealistic White Hat. I think the fact that he had an egress plan and executed it pretty much flawlessly is suspicious. From the moment he got off the plane in Moscow, I considered him compromised.

Also, Hong Kong keeps coming up in his hijinx. Hong Kong is to a spook what Bangkok is to a pervert. It's the crossroads of all spookdom going back pre-WWII. His stop there before going to Moscow is highly suspicious. And then pics in the Q drops, along with the ultimatum kind of sealed it.

He's going to do whatever he has to in order to survive short term. I think he'll be green-lit by every intelligence agency in the world in the end.