Exactly. "“He told us nothing we didn’t know before,” Putin said of Snowden" that reads like he is trying to make life pricklier for the people claiming that

Exactly. "“He told us nothing we didn’t know before,” Putin said of Snowden" that reads like he is trying to make life pricklier for the people claiming that great damage was done to national security by revealing these secrets. That is exactly the sort of thing I would say if I wanted to amuse myself by annoying US politicians.