Quote Originally Posted by Calculated View Post
So a Russian intelligence asset that had deep penetration into the NSA with a multitude of opportunities to find and send more pertinent information to Russia secretly chose to expose himself and ruin his information gathering capabilities to oust our gov for spying on its own citizens because it's so damaging? Sorry, that doesn't make sense to me.
Yes, for a multitude of possible reasons. He may have been believed to be blown already. Exposing him may protect the identity of a more important mole (a tactic that Soviet/Russian intelligence has used on multiple occasions in the past). And it may be believed that the damage he did to the Obama administration / US intelligence reputation was worth blowing him at the time.