You literally can't address the question. He had absolutely no reason to believe the official channels would do anything other than bury the story and throw him in jail for life.

You know that's what they would've done, it's what they have always done. He has been proven right about this since he left.

And what does all of this Russia China FUD have anything to do with anything? China and Russia are both technically our allies. The right loves Putin now. What kind of neoliberals cold war playbook like people like you even reading out of. Suddenly the US has all these fake allies and we're supposed to just know we're at war with secretly, and they didn't know anything about the Snowden stuff so he gave them this secret treasure trove of data that got people killed and put our soldiers at risk.

Grow up. You're parroting propaganda here.