I note in Q post #706 he mentions “JFK Con Room.”
The JFK Conference room is also known as the “White House Situation Room”
Dropped followed by a link to CIA kid games to break codes. Could they have broken CIA monitoring?
@Snowden followed by [JOHN] (kill box).
They discovered communications between someone named John and Snowden, taking John "out" and leaving Snowden out in the cold?