Was Snowden a frustrated "green badge"?

So Snowden was a "green badge", so what ?  It seems that according to some "NSA insider jokes" it is a source of contempt for other blue badges:

I think I speak for a whole lot of blue badgers that I am relieved the source is a green badger. We knew it was, right? NSA insider joke.

— John Schindler (@20committee) June 9, 2013

This exact color division is by no means new to NSA and it seems to be present in other companies with similar results for some:

Green badges are treated as a sub-life form even though there are more green badges than blue badges on this site and Intel could not get the job done with out green badges. very poor collaboration between green badges and blue badges.

This is a normal human trait as it is obvious from a lot of psychological experiments where divisions are made arbitrary from Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment to Jane Elliott's eye color division experiment. This shows that the people fill in and identify exactly with the roles they are expected to do and this takes a life of its own with real consequences. Take this paragraph from a paper on Eliott experiment:

Even if she wanted to stop her experiment, when Jane got back to her classroom, it had taken on a life of its own. A smart blue-eyed girl, who had never had problems with her multiplication tables, started making all kinds of mistakes. Jane noticed the student stumbling when she read aloud. When she walked across the room, Jane saw that she now slumped. During afternoon recess, the girl came running back to Room 10, sobbing. Three brown-eyed girls had ganged up on her, and one had hit her, warning, “You better apologize to us for getting in our way because we’re better than you are.”

Looking in this article there seems that there were the same kind of invisible barriers that Snowden tried to break:

As his coworker tells it, he was given full administrator privileges, with virtually unlimited access to NSA data. “Big mistake in hindsight,” says Snowden’s former colleague. “But if you had a guy who could do things nobody else could, and the only problem was that his badge was green instead of blue, what would you do?” (The emphasis is mine)

Is Snowden the product of a frustration simply generated by the way NSA does its business?