> Now scale that behavior up by a factor of 10 where people never get caught. Same with Snowden.

Snowden hasn't been caught yet, but we can devoutly hope that he will be someday.

What he did was no different: taking information he had no need to know about but had access to, and giving it to folks who had neither need nor access.

As for selling it — he seems to have made quite the career from his crime.