Believing there to be a meaningful difference between being somewhat careless with information on one hand, and intentionally leaking it to the press on the oth

Believing there to be a meaningful difference between being somewhat careless with information on one hand, and intentionally leaking it to the press on the other, is not playing a "political game". You can believe Snowden to be a hero or a traitor - I lean towards the former, personally - but his behavior was in a completely different category from Clinton's.