Selling public information
" He didn't reveal anything that wasn't already well-known to anyone with an interest and an ounce of common sense.
There's no real doubt that Snowden got the job solely to acquire data to sell to Russia and China"
You do realize that you just contradicted yourself in a single breath? What kind of nation would buy information that 'anyone with an interest and an ounce of common sense' would be able to figure out?
So is the data worthless or valuable? And if he intended to sell the data, why would he hand it over to a journalist? The data he copied was on a offline SharePoint server that didn't have proper monitoring running on it, it would have been trivial to just copy the data to a server that the Russians also had access to, he would have gotten paid, and the NSA would still wouldn't even have a clue that anything happened.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
