[GVIrish]

And Snowden was stealing files months before that happened. Maybe Snowden was on the fence about leaking and Clapper's lie pushed him over the edge. Or maybe it was what convinced him he was right.

But he had already been taking documents by the time Clapper got in front of Congress according to the unclassified house intelligence report on Snowden.

[ganoushoreilly]

He'd also been denied some lateral movement on teams / projects from what i've heard. I think it's easy to reframe all his actions into hero worship but we have to acknowledge that his original motivations may not have been the end results we see today.