Heh. It would be funny if people in COMSEC actually allowed this material to be leaked because they were disgusted about SIGINT putting so many vulnerabilities into publicly available crypto, and wanted to let it be revealed to stop that practice.
Unlikely, though. More likely that Snowden was just acting on his own. And he didn't really have "the keys to the kingdom"; just more access to a fileserver that had lots of PowerPoints on it than he should have had. If you note, almost everything that has leaked so far is PowerPoints where various branches of the NSA describe to each other and other government agencies what capabilities they have, but not the actual details of those capabilities. He probably had access to some fileserver used by the higher level executives at the NSA, but they do compartmentalize information and as they mentioned were very secretive about exactly what those vulnerabilities consist of, so there's a good chance that he didn't have access to systems where that was described.
Unlikely, though. More likely that Snowden was just acting on his own. And he didn't really have "the keys to the kingdom"; just more access to a fileserver that had lots of PowerPoints on it than he should have had. If you note, almost everything that has leaked so far is PowerPoints where various branches of the NSA describe to each other and other government agencies what capabilities they have, but not the actual details of those capabilities. He probably had access to some fileserver used by the higher level executives at the NSA, but they do compartmentalize information and as they mentioned were very secretive about exactly what those vulnerabilities consist of, so there's a good chance that he didn't have access to systems where that was described.