Sorry. I guess I presumed that your very first statement of "Snowden didn't circumvent anything" meant that he had nothing interesting in the first place. Which

Sorry. I guess I presumed that your very first statement of "Snowden didn't circumvent anything" meant that he had nothing interesting in the first place. Which implies that he has nothing to release even if he wanted to. So if he's charged with espionage, even if he hasn't released anything, does that mean he has circumvented something? Or that access to that information didn't actually require being circumvented in the first place?