So, what did the leaks tell us? First, they confirmed that the U.S. “He didn’t just upload them to the Internet.” “ spent months meticulously studying every document,” Greenwald said. As Glenn Greenwald, one of the journalists who broke the story, pointed out on “Morning Joe” today, this wasn’t a WikiLeaks-style data dump. military plans, or of any conversations between U.S. They didn’t contain the contents of any U.S. uses, the groups or individuals that the agency targets, or the identities of U.S. They didn’t reveal anything about the algorithms that the N.S.A. The National Security Agency has already referred the case to the Justice Department, and James Clapper, Obama’s director of National Intelligence, has said that Snowden’s leaks have done “huge, grave damage” to “our intelligence capabilities.”īefore accepting such claims at face value, let’s remind ourselves of what the leaks so far have not contained. authorities will most certainly seek to invoke. In fleeing to Hong Kong, he may have overlooked the existence of its extradition pact with the United States, which the U.S. When Snowden told the Guardian that “nothing good” was going to happen to him, he was almost certainly right. power structure-President Obama included-and some of its apologists in the media will see things differently.
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