Ok, but did you read the article? Snowden is talking about the mission of starting the conversation, which he has done.
“'For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,' he said. 'I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.'”
This was basically his stated goal when he started this whole thing: getting the public informed and starting the conversation about how much government intrusion into our private lives is too much.
“'For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,' he said. 'I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.'”