I feel sorry for him, living in Moscow for the rest of my life making less than I did when I worked for Booz Allen Hamilton isn't my idea of sticking it to the NSA.
For some people, their ideology is worth more than anything. He might be earning less and surrounded by people speaking a language which he cannot comprehend. But the fact is that millions of people around the world see him as a hero, who single-handedly fought the tyranny of the NSA. We need people like him to make this planet a better living space.
His victory is symbolic, but it will take high-ranking entities of dissent within the NSA itself to produce a whistleblower capable of inducing true change within the agency. With some NSA members sporting security clearances above the President's, it will take someone truly prepared to die or take a life sentence to expose them. Snowden is prepared to accept neither fate and because of the negligible quality of his information, he won't have to worry about it. The information Snowden has yet to release is already known by the NSA and trust me, they're not sweating it. Congress, CIA, and Snowden ain't got shit on the "King Kong" that is the NSA. Add to the fact that they may be the only agency outside the Pentagon who is able to keep tabs on DARPA's progress.
The only intelligence agency in the same league is Israel's Mossad. If you think our intelligence agencies do dirty work, Mossad is ruthless by comparison and without the fear they instill to militant enemies when they make their presence known, Israel could not survive.
