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Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files To Russia
mspohr writes "There's an interesting interview with Edward Snowden in the NY Times. He talks freely about his decision to start collecting documents. His experience in reporting problems and abuse convinced him he would be discredited. He also states he didn't take any of the documents to Russia and that the Chinese don't have them either. 'What would be the unique value of personally carrying another copy of the materials onward? There's a zero percent chance the Russians or Chinese have received any documents,' he said. Snowden turned them all over to the journalists. He also corrects last week's NY Times story about the derogatory comment in his personnel file; it was due to him discovering and trying to report a vulnerability in the CIA's internal software."
Being criticized by cold fjord is a compliment. Look at his past posts for an understanding of his moral alignment.
cold fjord, you have no standing on anything of moral consequence to the US or to the world. You support every government abuse against human rights that has occurred in the last 12 years. Go away, you are a bad person.
Oh we know they have at least some of the documents, they can read US and UK TOP SECRET documents in the newspapers just like anybody else
Which is not what you were talking about. Lame equivocation is lame. You said:
At this point the British believe that the Chinese, the Russians, or both, have copies of all the documents that Snowden took.
From your lame backpedaling answer it can only be assumed you have no evidence of your previous claim.
There is a difference. The US birth rate is much closer to the replacement rate of 2.1. Some parts of Europe are at or below 1.3, which halves a population in about 45 years. For the US the primary source of immigrants is Catholic Mexico. Although Mexicans have their own distinct culture, they are not fundamentally hostile to the US and its culture. Europe is brining in many immigrants that are fundamentally hostile to its culture and reject it, if not in the generation that immigrates, the one after it. Unless current trends change, Europe may very well be in a civil war in 30-50 years.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
He's neither a traitor nor is he a defector.
Indeed. He is a refugee.
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Great, Bullwinkle. Watch me pull a rabbit out of MY hat.
RELEVANT EXTRACT:
[Snowden] felt confident that he had kept the documents secure from
Chinese spies, and that the N.S.A. knew he had done so. His last
target while working as an agency contractor was China...
adding that he had had "access to every target, every active
operation mounted by the N.S.A. against the Chinese. Full lists of
them," he said.
"If that was compromised," he went on, "N.S.A. would have set the
table on fire from slamming it so many times in denouncing the damage
it had caused. Yet N.S.A. has not offered a single example of damage
from the leaks. They haven't said boo about it except "we think,"
"maybe", "have to assume" from anonymous and former officials. Not
"China is going dark." Not "the Chinese military has shut us out."
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."