This is the first to my knowledge that Snowden has proactively offered to work with a foreign country exposing NSA activities there. Previously his focus was e

This is the first to my knowledge that Snowden has proactively offered to work with a foreign country exposing NSA activities there. Previously his focus was exposing NSA activity in the US only. This is a big risk b/c it costs him the ability to claim he's not working for/with foreign powers against the US. I suspect what's happening is that his 1yr asylum in Russia is half-over and he may believe it won't be extended, so he's being forced to playing his trump card/s to obtain permanent asylum somewhere.