"Codeword" material is things like raw traffic (the most closely guarded material), working papers, technical extracts, and product reports. Codeword material is protected by strong access control - down to the point where they will set a length of time your password is good for; a few days before it expires you will be directed by the system to change it. They have all the passwords you used on file, so you can't pick two or three and use them alternately. If you do not need access to codeword material for your job (the MI term is "the need to know"
you won't ever get a password for it. And if Snowden decided to buddy-up to an operator to try to get a password, the operator would be on the phone to the special security officer with the greatest of haste.
The infamous PRISM slides are an example of non-codeword material; lots of admin crap, training aids, PowerPoint presentations like the Prism slide deck was...
We know Snowden was spying on the NSA while working at Dell. Then he moved to Booz Allen, probably because Booz Allen has access to higher-classification material. The safe assumption is that Edward Snowden has a copy of every single document he could get his thieving little mitts on.
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