Snowden, why didn't you just stop while you were ahead.

I don't understand. What about #7 and #9 make them so important?

For one, that we are looking to obtain that information. China/Russia has always been the "Enemy closer than my friend" circumstance. Although they are considered "allies" it still looks bad when you're exposed for looking through your "friends belongings". It also reveals how much information we do have. That put's us in a poor position as they know our limitations while there information is endless as far as we as a country are concerned. It also red flags what we are looking for, thus they focus their "counter espionage" on those points.

I didn't really want to comment on snowden until his intentions were finally developed, this just proved he was more of a traitor than a patriot, hell he had most of the world believing the later, so just to me, seems like a bad fellow in general :|