You can read Ben Rhodes in his own words, bragging in his book about he forced the Cubans to withdraw the guarantee of safe passage they had given Snowden to allow him to leave Russia, as he was desperately trying to do.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/ben-rhodes-book-proves-obama-officials
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/ben-rhodes-book-proves-obama-officials
Glenn Greenwald
Ben Rhodes' Book Proves Obama Officials' Lies, and His Own, About Edward Snowden and Russia
It is hard to overstate the sociopathy of US national security officials: their casual willingness to blatantly lie about the gravest matters is limitless.