He's, of course, talking about Government Officials' reaction, fantasies, plans(?) about 'what they'd like to do' to this maverick character, this n.d.a.-betrayer, this revealer of State Secrets.
"The Five Eyes Alliance - GCHQ (UK), NSA (USA), Canada, Australia and New Zealand are all combined in the Total Surveillance Grid. The tipping point, for me, was when Director of National Intelligence James Clapper lied (under oath) to Congress." Snowden explains.
On the above point: Oh, please get rid of OATH in 'trials'. You did it or you didn't do it. Be a man. Be a woman. Be an inhabitant, a unique individual, of a Free Planet. There's no point lying for PROFIT any more, you're it. You're the future your children's children are relying upon.