It's highly unlikely he had access to "everything" at NSA -- not even sure what that could mean. But he was apparently a higher-level employee than the simple

It's highly unlikely he had access to "everything" at NSA -- not even sure what that could mean. But he was apparently a higher-level employee than the simple sysadmin he's been portrayed as. There has been persistent speculation from the NY Times[1] and elsewhere about his job title of "infrastructure analyst", specifically that it would have given him access to a significant amount of highly-compartmentalized information. [1]https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/us/job-title-key-to-inner-access-held-by-snowden.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/us/job-title-key-to-inner...