> And why was his precise salary released? He claimed to be earning $200,000 in his statements to The Guardian — his intention, presumably, to emphasise the ex

> And why was his precise salary released? He claimed to be earning $200,000 in his statements to The Guardian — his intention, presumably, to emphasise the extent of the sacrifice he has made in releasing these documents. A side-effect of that revelation is that Booz Allen Hamilton have been reported on in a decidedly unfavourable light, as the greedy contractors in cahoots with the US government to bleed the taxpayer dry. Booz Allen Hamilton obviously want to counter that notion, so have produced a much lower, slightly more reasonable, figure for his salary. As always, the truth probably lies somewhere in between. The figure Snowden gave is probably rounded up for simplicity, and the figure BAH provided is probably excluding parts of his compensation package.