1) Blame Google ... not NSA!! Railing against NSA is a form of killing the messinger. It's clear that the people who have the data (and use it every day) are Google, ...  NSA simply compelled them to give it up.  It clearly shows that NSA can't collect it themselves or they would have (secretly of course).  It's embarrassing not because of the fact NSA has the data but it's an admission that NSA can't actually collect it themselves.  This is the 'real' secret that was revealed.  It is wierd that the media misreads the problem - be clear neither Russia or China do.

2) Where's the data? People don't do arithmetic. Google claims to use 640 million watts continually (just to run its data centers). Enough to power a sizable city. (see http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/technology/google-details-and-defends-its-use-of-electricity.html?_r=0)  If NSA is keeping all this data: 1) where is it being kept? 2) whose budget pasys the electric bill (the electric company must have suspected its purpose?) 3) what compant make the drives NSA is using (who paid for them and how much?) How many more drives do they need each day? 4) how do they index and search all this data (Google et all index less than 10% of the web and searches are still crude.) 5) maybe the heat is the cause of climate change!!!!! (a lame attempt at humor).  The NSA couldn't determine that he was snatching 'important' data - how cleaver could they be?

3) Is Snowden still on the NSA payroll? It is in the NSAs interest to have people believe that they know 'everything' about your cyber life.  In particular, terrorists who use social media and online games to communicate (a well known fact). This kind of disinformation is the intelligence agencies bread and butter.  Of course Russia and China know this.  The US (and them) traditionally throw wanabee defectors out of their embasseys because the probablity that they're a planted spy is greater than their being a legit 'dissenter'.  They likely fed Snowden misinfo. Either they founda unwitted willing dupe in Snowden or he's still on the payroll.

4) Snowden naive (China and Russia have everything he has) Can he really be stupid enough to carry the 'secrets' everywhere with him?  He convieniently went to China and Russia. Can you really believe they didn't copy everything he had?  Its too easy.

5) BO himself is either himself a dupe (given his incompetence) or knows its a disinformation campaign and is enjoying the joke.  Either way he's a loser.