Thursday, October 17, 2013

Snowden Says in Interview He Took No Secret Files to Russia

BREAKING NEWSThursday, October 17, 2013 6:27 PM EDT
Snowden Says in Interview He Took No Secret Files to Russia
Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, said in an extensive interview with The New York Times this month that he did not take any secret N.S.A. documents with him to Russia when he fled there in June, assuring that Russian intelligence officials could not get access to them.
He also asserted that he was able to protect the documents from China’s spies because he was familiar with that nation’s intelligence abilities, saying that as an N.S.A. contractor he had targeted Chinese operations and had taught a course on Chinese cybercounterintelligence.
“There’s a zero percent chance the Russians or Chinese have received any documents,” he said.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/world/snowden-says-he-took-no-secret-files-to-russia.html?emc=edit_na_20131017

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