How Edward Snowden May Have Botched Blowing The Whistle On The World's Largest Spy Agency

Initially Snowden served as a legitimate whistleblower — he published the first concrete evidence of the NSA's domestic surveillance apparatus, corroborating claims made by previous whistleblowers and raising serious questions about the constitutionality of the NSA running a widespread, warrantless domestic dragnet with weak oversight.

But there is a growing body of evidence that Snowden botched the endgame and may have unintentionally leaked more highly valuable U.S. national security intel than he meant to.