True up the relationship.

Yeah. This was all planned from the very begin. Snowden is the real evil person here.

The Russians knowing through intelligence channels about domestic surveillance programs and how those would be perceived, and then exposing them with the help of a "hero" explicitly to sow distrust in Western governments is not even a far-fetched story. It's absolutely plausible.

And they really played this out well. How many years did it take?

Putin has time.