Snowden wasn't "unprivileged", I think he had relatively high clearance. Also, I'd say they did a pretty good job if the government protected their spies' ident

Snowden wasn't "unprivileged", I think he had relatively high clearance. Also, I'd say they did a pretty good job if the government protected their spies' identities for a couple years after the documents were released. I'd think that would be plenty of time to close up shop and gtfo.