Originally Posted by TheSquealer

Well, I would say that's unlikely given his intelligence and access to sensitive material and the nature of the work. "A plan" in the sense you are using it i believe is to change the world through a carefully calculated series of events. To me, "a plan" that is more likely is that some guy befriends him at a bar he goes to every Thursday night, builds rapport/trust and leads him into railing against the government and progressively gets him to open up more and more while that person reinforces the idea that these are outrageous abuses that must be stopped. Soon there's a mention of exposing data to the world... next thing you know, the guy announces he has a "friend" in China that can help, there is more discussion, some offer is made to him which is enticing enough that he woke up one morning and got on a plane. Once he was there, no choice was his anyway. Foreign governments like China or Russia don't really give a fuck about his personal concerns about his own government. They will use him, milk him dry and discard him when its politically convenient. This is why i say that ultimately, he will end up in a US prison. He is nothing more than political currency that everyone is trying to spend before it dries up. After that... who needs him? No one. He just becomes a thorn in the side of the host country and they'll sell him when the price is right. That price starts dropping pretty fast as the story cools.